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The grand plea for woman sharing with man all the advantages of education is, that every rational being is worthy of cultivation, for his or her own individual sake. The first object in the education of every mind ought to be its own development.

— Marion Kirkland Reid A Plea for Woman (1843)

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Cf. Frances Wright, "Oh! then, let us gird up our minds in courage, ..."

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