Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Out 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.
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Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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