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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“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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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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton [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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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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