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"I know that I am the slave and you the lord. The law of the land has made you my master....you have the right of the stronger party, and society confirms you in it; but over my will, sir, you are powerless."
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--Dialogue from George Sand's Indiana
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(Winegarten, 107)
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"What moral sense can a woman have if she cannot call her soul her own, possesses nothing in her own name, and has been accustomed all her life to use her guile and charm as a means to escape from tyranny and constraint?"
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--From Flora Tristan's Promenades dans Londres(Cross, 52)
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