I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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