One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOne remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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