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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen 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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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