I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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?
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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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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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