My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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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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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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