Sublime

She was born a Quaker. As such, she found herself in a vastly different social milieu than other American girls—a world with at least a window open to other possibilities. Her family believed in absolute equality of the sexes.

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She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.” Susan B. Anthony was what she championed. She had become, through her own practice, the New True Woman.