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Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed, that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage, she hugs her chains.

— Lucretia Mott Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer? (1854)

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