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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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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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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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