“Deriving their analytic framework from the work of an earlier generation of feminists, particularly such singular rebels as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sarah Grimké, the anarchist women insisted that the humanity of women was all the justification their cause required.”
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“I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”

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