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Harmony within a marriage greatly influences the education of children, our future citizens. How many times have a mother’s tears, cried in moments of pain and contradiction, powerfully influenced her children!

— Luisa Capetillo A Nation of Women (1911)

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It is time that "equality" stop being a vain phrase, and that the rights of both men and women be equal.

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Let us study and prepare our generation for the future struggles, which lie ahead.

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