Quote#Politics & Power
There are many instances now in our city, where the wife suffers much…
Quote byLucretia Mott · 1793–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" (1854).
English (original)
There are many instances now in our city, where the wife suffers much from the power of the husband to claim all that she can earn with her own hands. In my intercourse with the poorer class of people, I have known cases of extreme cruelty from the hard earnings of the wife being thus robbed by the husband, and no redress at law.
— Lucretia Mott
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