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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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