Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - the open sesame to every soul.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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