Women Suffrage

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“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“... woman was made first for her own happiness, with the absolute right to herself ... we deny that dogma of the centuries, incorporated in the codes of all nations—that woman was made for man ...”
—National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3, ch. 27, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)