"For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES."

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Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Ernestine Rose

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“Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.”
“No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.”

Source : Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.136, Harvard University Press
“Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.”
“In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.”
“Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to his face. I'm struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is-- all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown. And he has probably always been handsome. Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles like he is surprised you bothered to look at him from the first place.”
“I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.”
“I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.”
“We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.”

Source : "Tamarisk Tree Volume 3: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell , ch. 14, 1985.

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