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Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women – A Picture Book About Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, and Equality for Children
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“In the early days of the nation, a heroic female called Columbia symbolized our country. A bronze statue of Columbia crowned with feathers and stars stands atop the Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. She represents Freedom. A majestic woman made of copper, the Statue of Liberty, holds an illuminated torch and greets voyagers to America at New York City. Newcomers might think that the United States is a nation that highly esteems her mothers, sisters, and daughters.
Well, yes and no. Men might have worshipped the ideal of woman as though she were a goddess, but, as Carrie Chapman Catt said early in the twentieth century, they "governed her as though she were an idiot.”
― Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women – A Picture Book About Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, and Equality for Children
Well, yes and no. Men might have worshipped the ideal of woman as though she were a goddess, but, as Carrie Chapman Catt said early in the twentieth century, they "governed her as though she were an idiot.”
― Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women – A Picture Book About Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, and Equality for Children
