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“[Men say:] Dont you know that we are your natural protectors? But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.”
—Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bestIm sure it is the most religiousfor I begin with writing the first sentenceand trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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