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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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