Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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, 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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