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.
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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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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