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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World
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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Feeling Proud Sex Woman Word
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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.

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