It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.
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| Birth: | 26th November, 1792 |
| Death: | 23rd December, 1873 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Abolitionist, Suffragist, Writer |
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