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How many girls pay for the tantrums, jealousies or vexations of their mothers, who act without any justifying motive, only because they need to blow off steam and they can’t do it in front of their husbands.

— 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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I cannot explain why a man always feels he has rights over a woman.

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The current social system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.

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Education is the mother of freedom; science is her eldest daughter; and her sisters, tolerance and discretion, with rights and responsibilities.

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

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