The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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All men & women are created equal.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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