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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Home Mother Present Role Women
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Civilization Place Society Women
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Book Consistency Literature Religious
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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Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
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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Attention Human Important Knowledge Mom Preparation Professional
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Friendship Move See World
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
You 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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Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Best Courage Inspirational Motivational Protection Woman
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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End Family God Human Togetherness Violence Wisdom
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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Crime Growth Help Illusion Misery Original Sin Victim Woman
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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Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman