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We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin. - Jane Grey Swisshelm
Attribution: Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884), U.S. newspaper editor, abolitionist, temperance and women’s rights activist. The Lily, p. 3 (January 1850). The first feminist journal in the United States, the magazine was edited by Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) in Seneca Falls, N.Y, for the majority of its 1849-1858 run.

Categories: Abolitionist, Newspaper Editor, Sexism, Temperance And Women’s Rights Activist, Women

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