Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe 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.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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 would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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