"All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."
"It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex."
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Source: Frances Wright, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1834*). “Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”
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