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The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country — with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Burn up the corsets!... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens for so many years and heave a sigh of relief, for your emancipation I assure you, from this moment has begun.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart... those who have it are fit to see God.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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Born: August 31, 1844

Died: January 28, 1911 (aged 66)

Bio: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.

Known for:

The Gates Ajar (1868)
The Story of Avis (1877)
Doctor Zay (1882)
Gypsy Breynton (1866)
The gates between (1887)

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