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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
— Harriet Martineau
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Harriet Martineau
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, novelist, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, writer, suffragist, abolitionist
1802 – 1876
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.