So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhile 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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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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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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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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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