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 may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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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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