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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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 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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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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