Of Blessings and Virgins … “Thus sayeth The Lord”

“When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*  Emily  Cady Stanton   Even in captivity and