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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

Source: Speech, Disappointment Is the Lot of Women, 17-18 October 1855; in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Mathilda Gage, 1881.
-- Lucy Stone, (Aug 13 1818-1893), US suffragist, feminist; She founded the American Woman's Suffrage Assn; first known woman to keep her own name after marriage.

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