Quotation by Voltairine Decleyre

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as quoted in Fugitive Information by Kay Leigh Hagan (1993)

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Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.

Voltairine Decleyre

Voltairine Decleyre (1866–1912), U.S. anarchist, feminist, author, and teacher. As quoted in Fugitive Information, ch. 2, by Kay Leigh Hagan (1993).

Written in 1890.

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