Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe 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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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.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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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 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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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