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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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[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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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