So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIf the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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