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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
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 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 heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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 happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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