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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[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
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Change Enemy Ourselves Position Violence Woman
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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Growth Happiness Ideas Place Religious
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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Angry Beautiful Beauty Love Mother Peace Place Rain Rule Sea Togetherness
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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Belief Ideas Law Man Ourselves Religion Right Sex Women
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Atheist Book Lesson Motivational Nature Religion Teaching
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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Children Ourselves Woman
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
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
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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Burn Death Fantasy History Magic Victim Woman
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Learning Safety Truth
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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Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Old Progress Thinking Victory
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
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
When 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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Body Feminist House Professional Support
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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Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
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
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
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Creation Equalty Evidence Hold Man Truth Woman
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Consistency Human Men Try Woman
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Conscience Desire Love Respect
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
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

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