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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhile 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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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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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