Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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 desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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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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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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 am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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