Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAmong the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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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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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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