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Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

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Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

Source: In Words of Wisdom, by Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire, 1989.
-- Lucretia Mott, (Jan 3 1793-1880), US social reformer; She was a leader in the anti-slavery movement and co-founded the U.S. women's rights movement.


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