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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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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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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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