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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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