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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Man Oppression Slave Woman
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 STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
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 STANTON

Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Development Feeling Health Woman
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book Consistency Literature Religious
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Friendship Move See World
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
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 STANTON

Believe Death Domination God Love Men Religion Sin Teaching World
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Belief Ideas Law Man Ourselves Religion Right Sex Women
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Body Feminist House Professional Support