Lillie Devereux Blake Quotes

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I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

Lillie Devereux Blake

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

Lillie Devereux Blake

Lillie Devereux Blake

Lillie Devereux Blake

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Born: August 12, 1833

Died: December 30, 1913 (aged 80)

Bio: Lillie Devereux Blake was an American woman suffragist and reformer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut.

Known for:

Fettered for life (1874)
Southwold: A Novel (1859)
Rockford: Or, Sunshine and Storm (1863)

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