The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOur ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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