Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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