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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.

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