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Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

— Anne Hutchinson Trial and Interrogation (1637)

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Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

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As I do understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. He who has God's grace in his heart cannot go astray.

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If you please to give me leave I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true.

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I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of men and women and there is a meeting only for women.

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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus, that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

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