Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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