In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
LUCRETIA MOTTIt is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
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I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
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Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.
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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not
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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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