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.
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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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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 desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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