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Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.
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The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
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For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.
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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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You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." - Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)
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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. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of ones self- sovereignty.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishement of an absolute tyrrany over her.
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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
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