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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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