But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in othe…

Ernestine Rose
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But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. ✨ Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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