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Father and Mother
shed tears at these stories, unable themselves to read. We condemn
the past for not educating our women like the men, but we lived in
Eastern Europe at a time when few men could read and write. Only
in Western Europe did women begin to be enfranchised in the last
century. The Church was the dispenser of learning and it considered
women as household goods, unnecessary to educate.
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