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I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.

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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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