“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”

Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
Medicine and Morality (1881)

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