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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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