You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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