"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox."
"A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value."
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Source: Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.209, e-artnow
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