Right-wing Women

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the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place,

everywhere conceded— a place earned by personal

merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance,

wealth, family and position. Conceding, then, that

the responsibilities of life rest equally on man and

woman, that their destiny is the same, they need the

same preparation for time and eternity. The talk o f

sheltering woman from the fierce storms o f life is the

sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every

point of the compass, just as they do on man, and

with more fatal results, for he has been trained to

protect himself, to resist, and to conquer. Such are

the facts in human experience, the responsibilities of

individual sovereignty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1892

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The Promise of the Ultra-Right

There is a rumor, circulated for centuries by scientists, artists, and

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