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← Marriage generally lowers a woman, costing her individuality and independent character
17 connected korrents · 10 moments from 15 Nov 1844 to 20 Aug 2026.
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Read this korrent: Marriage generally lowers a woman, costing her individuality and independent character
Marriage generally lowers a woman, costing her individuality and independent character
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Sarah Grimké — holds since c. 1837–1838 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Many women must support themselves without access to varied work or education, so they are raised to see marriage as their one object — tap to centre the map on it
Many women must support themselves without access to varied work or education, so they are raised to see marriage as their one object
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Harriet Martineau — holds since c. 1838 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Marriage is flawed when women enter it for food and clothes and men for cooks and housekeepers — tap to centre the map on it
Marriage is flawed when women enter it for food and clothes and men for cooks and housekeepers
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman — holds since c. 1898 — tap for who they are
Same subject: How far women are degraded is as good a test as any of the state of domestic morals in a country — tap to centre the map on it
How far women are degraded is as good a test as any of the state of domestic morals in a country
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Harriet Martineau — holds since c. 1838 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Under English common law a wife's position on property is worse than that of slaves in many countries — tap to centre the map on it
Under English common law a wife's position on property is worse than that of slaves in many countries
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John Stuart Mill — holds since c. 1861–1869 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Because women do not hold property on equal terms with men, their cause may well be pleaded by a party like the anti-slavery one — tap to centre the map on it
Because women do not hold property on equal terms with men, their cause may well be pleaded by a party like the anti-slavery one
Last stated 182 years ago
15 Nov 1844
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Margaret Fuller — holds since 1844-11-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A wife must think and act for herself on all moral and religious questions — tap to centre the map on it
A wife must think and act for herself on all moral and religious questions
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Sarah Grimké — holds since c. 1837–1838 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Not content with their physical advantage, men lower women further to make them merely alluring — tap to centre the map on it
Not content with their physical advantage, men lower women further to make them merely alluring
MW
Mary Wollstonecraft — holds since c. 1792 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Men would gain from the equality of the sexes, as an equal is worth more than an inferior — tap to centre the map on it
Men would gain from the equality of the sexes, as an equal is worth more than an inferior
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Sarah Grimké — holds since c. 1837–1838 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on AI would be short-sighted, giving up on the problem too early. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on AI would be short-sighted, giving up on the problem too early.
Last stated 3 years ago
25 May 2023
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Nabeel S. Qureshi — holds since 2023-05-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A basic rule for better decisions is to slow down, especially when there is an immediate conviction. — tap to centre the map on it
A basic rule for better decisions is to slow down, especially when there is an immediate conviction.
Last stated 7 years ago
12 Oct 2019
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Daniel Kahneman — holds since 2019-10-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A choice with no immediate payoff is not necessarily a poor one: many extraordinary things come from what is first-order negative and second-order positive. — tap to centre the map on it
A choice with no immediate payoff is not necessarily a poor one: many extraordinary things come from what is first-order negative and second-order positive.
Last stated 11 years ago
12 Apr 2016
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Shane Parrish — holds since 2016-04-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it
A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero
Last stated 58 years ago
13 Dec 1968
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Garrett Hardin — holds since 1968-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death. — tap to centre the map on it
A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death.
Last stated 6 years ago
4 Jun 2020
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Ada Palmer — holds since 2020-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change. — tap to centre the map on it
A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change.
Last stated 2 months ago
20 Aug 2026
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Lyman Stone — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company. — tap to centre the map on it
"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.
Last stated 9 months ago
25 Jan 2026
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Jason Cohen — holds since 2026-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us. — tap to centre the map on it
A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.
Last stated a year ago
3 Aug 2025
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William MacAskill — holds since 2025-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress — tap to centre the map on it
A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress
Last stated 4 years ago
4 Nov 2022
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-11-04 — tap for who they are
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