My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the … - Harriet Martineau

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I'm always very aware of the physical challenges of work. I train much more than I did when I was in my twenties, and I've done some very physical films, and I always get properly prepared for them and get as fit as I can.

Harriet Martineau

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

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It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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