Ernestine Rose
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES. ✨ 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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