Women's rights

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Anthony, Susan B. The Revolution. 15 Jan. 1868.

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Truth, Sojourner. Speech in Ohio. Woman's convention. May 1851, Akron, Ohio, USA.

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Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Great Speeches by African Americans, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2006.

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The United States Constitution. Amend. 19, sec. 1.

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"The Constitution of the United States." The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 19, sec. 1.

It is the glory of each generation to make its own precedents.

Belva Lockwood

Arguing for the admission of women to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Lockwood, Belva. Arguing for the admittance of women to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association. 16-17 Jan. 1877, Washington, DC, USA.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Woman and the New Race

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Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.

Get the government out of my fucking snatch.

Selina Meyer

Veep

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"The Choice." Veep, written by Roger Drew and Ian Martin and Armando Iannucci, directed by Becky Martin, season 3, episode 2, Home Box Office and Dundee Productions, 2014.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Truth, Sojourner. Speech in Ohio. Woman's convention. May 1851, Akron, Ohio, USA.

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Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Great Speeches by African Americans, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2006.

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Anthony, Susan B. Speech made after she was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. 5 Nov. 1872, Rochester, NY, USA.

Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, edited by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Anthony, Susan B. “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage." 17 June 1873, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not. London: Harrison and Sons, 1859.

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. Dover Publications, 1969.

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Defoe, Daniel. "Of Academies: An Academy for Women." An Essay Upon Projects. London: Tho. Cockerill, 1697.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

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Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 2.

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Brewer, David J. United States, Supreme Court. Muller v. Oregon. United States Reports, vol. 208, 24 Feb. 1908, pp. 412-423. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/208/412/.

Okay, no uterus, no opinion.

Rachel Green

Friends

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"The One with the Secret Closet." Friends, written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and Robert Carlock, directed by Kevin Bright, season 8, episode 14, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and Warner Bros. Television, 2002.

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Anthony, Susan B. The Revolution. 8 Oct. 1969.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 3.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 3.

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Kennedy, Florynce. "The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq." Ms. Magazine, Mar. 1973.

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Livy. Ab urbe condita [From the Founding of the City]. c. 9 BC, bk. 34, ch. 2, sect. 12.

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Livy. Rome and the Mediterranean: History of Rome from Its Foundation, books 31-45, translated by Henry Bettenson. Penguin Classics, 1976, bk. 34, ch. 2.