You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe 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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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 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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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