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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.


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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.




We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.



The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.



To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.




Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.



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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.



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If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.



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I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.





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