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Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Matilda Joslyn Gage
Age: 71 †
Born: 1826
Born: March 24
Died: 1898
Died: March 18
Activist
Editor
Feminist
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Suffragette
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Cicero
New York
Matilda Electa Joslyn
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