Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOut of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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