Alice Paul's Decisions

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Alice Paul’s belief that “when you’re alone you can make any choice you want. But when someone loves you, you lose that right” is mostly true, especially since one’s decisions are influenced by those who love them, but she is also false depending on how real and unconditional the love is portrayed throughout the relationship. When alone, an individual is given the independence and freedom to follow through with whichever decision they make, such as when Alice Paul fighting her way for women's equal rights to vote, which was chosen upon her and many others during that time period. Alice Paul was free to do what she believed, because she had no one to disappoint but herself, which would only occur if she had failed to win the right to

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