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Men's gallantry encourages selfishness in women and is given in exchange for denied rights
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- Sarah Grimké American abolitionist and women's rights writer (1792 to 1873)
This kind of attention encourages selfishness in woman, and is only accorded as a sort of quietus, in exchange for those rights of which we are deprived.
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↗Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1837-1838)gutenberg.org
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