Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThough 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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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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 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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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 desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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