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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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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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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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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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