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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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