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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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That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.
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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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To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.