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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Literature Myself Regard 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
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Crime Growth Help Illusion Misery Original Sin Victim Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
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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Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Age Forever Funny Life Young
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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Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
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
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Change Enemy Ourselves Position Violence Woman
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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