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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

We should give to our rulers, our sires and sons no rest until all our rights— social, civil and pol...

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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences...

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The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

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The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the supersti...

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Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the o...

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When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books...

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So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone...

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrad...

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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the rulin...

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible t...

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Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the publ...

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I shall not grow conservative with age.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than...

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing tha...

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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and...

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self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this...

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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat ou...

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Bo...

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The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according ...

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The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and poli...

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The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times...

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The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...

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We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

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One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

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We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

The Woman's Bible

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards wo...

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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can...

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We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own soul...

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History of Woman Suffrage

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphe...

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Declaration of Sentiments

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all found...

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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Activist

Born: 1815-11-12

Died: 1902-10-26

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially the abolition of slavery.More