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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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