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A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner asserts the equal property rights of married women in this quote, emphasizing gender equality in legal contracts.
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