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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSo long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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