"When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see...

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~












Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all found...
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