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Mary Ashton Livermore: Above the titles...

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Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

Source: What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?, Ch. 7, 1883.
-- Mary Ashton Livermore, (Dec 19 1820-1905), US journalist, social reformer, lecturer; She edited The Agitator, 1869 and Woman's Journal, 1870-72; lectured for 25 years for temperance and suffrage.


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