The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe best protection any woman can have… is courage.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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