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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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