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“... our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.”
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“... we would see a long line of cattle like black lace against the sunset sky.”
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“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.”
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“There is nothing which prevents feeling like shamming it. Pretence dries up the heart.”
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“Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.”
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“... England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.”
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“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”
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“No professional doors have opened more slowly to women than the portals of medicine; but, as medicine itself outgrew superstition and magical potions to become a science, so have women gained a place in it, not supplanting men but supplementing them.”