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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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
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
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Home Mother Present Role Women
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Old Progress Thinking Victory
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
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Freedom Greatness Hope Ignorance Justice Noble Principle Religion Wrong
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Development Need Reality Time
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Advantage Equality Government People Protection
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
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
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
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