Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she mig

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

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

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

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

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