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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Funny Life Woman
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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Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Old Progress Thinking Victory
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Human Nature Oneself Possible Soul Spiritual Success
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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Children Ourselves Woman
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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