Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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