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#1. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones

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#2. To a large extent, then, the position of women and girls worsened in the early nineteenth century because the work of most of them did not change at a time when everything else was changing very rapidly. Those

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#3. War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

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#4. Louisiana was notorious as the last refuge of French whores and scoundrels. By

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#5. For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army.

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#6. those who married and bore children, and those who worked and consequently were not really women at all. The

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#7. (At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)

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#8. Temperance workers protested the economic dependence that made married women subject to drunken husbands. Organizations of women workers sought respect and higher wages for women's labor. Women's

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#9. New Jersey, in 1844, became the last state to add the qualifying male to citizen, and women who had been voting all along could not vote anymore.

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