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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman... I have been traveling...more

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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self ...more

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

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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 public? Did I not believe that women herself must do t...more

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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had ...more

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When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emana...more

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

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

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He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience ...more

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We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in...more

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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates...more

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How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the...more

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

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One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. In common parlance we have much fine-spun theorizi...more

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We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in...more