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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.

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

Strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.

{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

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

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

But the love of offspring ... tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

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

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

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

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.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

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

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

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

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

How long will the heathens rage?

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims ...

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

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

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

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

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

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

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

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

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

All men & women are created equal

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

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

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.