Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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