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To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.
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Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.