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The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Source: The Two Offers, 1859.
-- Frances Watkins Harper, (Sep 24 1825-1911), US poet; She was among the earliest U.S. black writers; wrote anti-slavery verse, 1850s-1860s; co-organized the National Association of Colored Women.

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