Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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