Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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All men & 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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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 great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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You 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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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