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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All men & women are created equal.
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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.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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