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Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

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Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,
And are setting the world by the ears!

Source: The Times That Try Men's Souls, in History of Woman Suffrage, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,1881.
-- Maria Weston Chapman, (Jul 25 1806-1885), US abolitionist, editor; She was the organiser of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1834.


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