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Fettered for life (1874)
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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.
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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.
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We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
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Lillie Devereux Blake
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Born:
August 12, 1833
Died:
December 30, 1913
(aged 80)
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