Ernestine Rose

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

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These are some quotes by American author Ernestine Rose Activist, who lived between January 13, 1810 and August 4, 1892.

Quotes by Ernestine Rose

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

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Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?

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Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

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