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Harriot Stanton Blatch: I Believe in Women

After nearly a decade of organizing in New York, Harriot Stanton Blatch had her eyes on victory in 1915. "If we win the empire state, all the states will come tumbling down like a pack of cards." – Harriot S. Blatch

 

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