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Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

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One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased. Such teaching is pestiferous, and tends to cause and perpetuate the very evils it professes to remedy.

Source: On books written by men physicians; What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?, Ch. 2, 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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