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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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[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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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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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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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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 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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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