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Quotes of the Day for 19 July 2004 - Women's Rights

The first women's rights convention assembled on this day in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York. It was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott. The convention was attended by 200 women and 40 supportive men, and was the occasion of Amelia Bloomer introducing pants for women, called "Bloomers" for the first time.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes. They will say, Women don't have what it takes.
     - Clare Boothe Luce, 1902 - 1987

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attaché cases and our three-piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.
     - Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 - 1896

I do not wish them (women) to have power over men; but over themselves.
     - Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 - 1797

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
     - Susan B. Anthony, 1820 - 1906

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
     - Timothy Leary, 1920 - 1996

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