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1874–1942

What Governments Say to Women

Alice Duer Miller

Help us. Your country needs you; Show that you love her, Give her your men to fight, Ay, even to fall;

The fair, free land of your birth, Set nothing above her, Not husband nor son, She must come first of all.

What's this? You've wed an alien, Yet you ask for legislation To guard your nationality? We're shocked at your demand.

A woman when she marries Takes her husband's name and nation: She should love her husband only. What's a woman's native land?

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