Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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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.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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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.
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