Quote#Nature
Whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be…
Quote byLucy Stone · 1818–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Progress of Fifty Years (1893).
English (original)
Whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.
— Lucy Stone
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