It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

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To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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