I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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