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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you...

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I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovere...

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Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impe...

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Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on w...

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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in so...

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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...

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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise...

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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all th...

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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

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Frances Wright

Writer

Born: 1795-09-06

Died: 1852-12-13

Frances Wright (September 6 1795 – December 13 1852), also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scotland-born lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist, and utopian, who became a U.S. citizen in 1825.More