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 STANTONThe Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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 contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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