The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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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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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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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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