The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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