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Some things that we want.

Said a gentleman to me the other day, "I wish you
would write an article for the _ and state plainly
and clearly, just what you want" and he added "it would
be something that I never knew a lecturer or writer or
woman's rights to do ye!"

Of course I have not the vanity to suppose that
I can do what so many more learned, and more gifted
have failed to do, viz. make that man understand what the
advocate of woman's rights demand, for it is one thing
to explain, and quite another to give the understanding:
and we have the faintest possible suspicion that this case
is hopeless, on the ground of the man convinced against
his will, is of the same opinion still."

Neither shall I attempt to show all that we ask
, but just jot down a few items as the few moments
snatched from labor or slumber will permit.

And here let me say that we do not merely ask
a change of legislation in our favor, knowing well that
were all the laws that oppress women struck from
the statute books to day, that a tyrant ten-fold
stronger exists in the Customs that find men &
women too, willing slaves in their fetters.