A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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