Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOne 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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All men & women are created equal.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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