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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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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.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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