The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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[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.
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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.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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