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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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[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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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