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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. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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