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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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Believe Death Domination God Love Men Religion Sin Teaching World
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Advantage Equality Government People Protection
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Home Mother Present Role Women
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Darkness Diversity History Human Oppression Slave Woman
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Health Myself Reason
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Consistency Human Men Try Woman
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Equality Politics Respect
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Book Consistency Literature Religious
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Atheist Book Lesson Motivational Nature Religion Teaching
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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Beginning Courage Fear Life Light Moments Opinion Ourselves Policy Silence Soul Strength Truth
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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Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
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
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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