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  1. Frances Wright was the first woman in this country who spoke on the equality of the sexes. She had indeed a hard task before her. The eleme…
  2. In those days I frequented the anti-slavery halls, in New York - heard many of their speakers - people of all qualities, styles - always in…
  3. She was thoroughly versed in the literature of the day, was well informed on general topics, and spoke French and Italian fluently. She had…
  4. She had all of Ingersoll's magnetism and perhaps more than his tact. ...She was a brilliant woman, of beauty and estate, who was never sati…
  5. Frances Wright, little known to the present generation, was really the spiritual helpmate and better half of the Owens, in the socialistic …
  6. The matter and manner of the dialogue is strictly ancient ... the scenery and portraiture of the interlocutors are of higher finish than an…
  7. To this heroic woman, who left ease, elegance, a high social circle of rich culture, and with true self-abnegation gave her life, in the co…
  8. Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, a…

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