History Of Women In The United States
For Women's suffrage see also History of women's suffrage in the United States.
For lesbians see also Lesbian American history.
This is a history of women in the United States.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:17.