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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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
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
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Darkness Diversity History Human Oppression Slave Woman
Eve 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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Flower Garden Knowledge Satisfaction Simplicity Taste
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Friendship Move See World
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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Enjoyment Freedom Suffering Thinking Time
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Learning Safety Truth
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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End Family God Human Togetherness Violence Wisdom
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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Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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Angry Beautiful Beauty Love Mother Peace Place Rain Rule Sea Togetherness

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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