| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11211 |
| QUOTATION: | I consider women a great deal superior to men. Men are physically strong, but women are morally better.... It is woman who keeps the world in balance. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mrs. Chalkstone, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882).
Speaking on May 14, 1863, at a national convention of the Woman’s National Loyal League. Chalkstone had travelled from California to attend. |
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