Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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 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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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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.
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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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