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.
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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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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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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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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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