There are many instances now in our city, where the wife suffers much from the power of the husband to claim all that she can earn with her own hands… - Lucretia Mott

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There are many instances now in our city, where the wife suffers much from the power of the husband to claim all that she can earn with her own hands. In my intercourse with the poorer class of people, I have known cases of extreme cruelty from the hard earnings of the wife being thus robbed by the husband, and no redress at law.

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About Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was a Quaker abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer who lived in the USA.

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Alternative Names: Lucretia C. Mott • Lucretia Coffin Mott • Lucretia Coffin
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This then is what we ask for woman, that she may be so prepared for life’s duties, that can be fill her walk in life respectably, and show that she can be something more than a slave, on the one hand, or a toy, or an effeminate being on the other.
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