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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Feeling Proud Sex Woman Word
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
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Memories Oneself Religion Shadow Suffering Young
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Attention Human Important Knowledge Mom Preparation Professional
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Woman World
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Complete Cry Death Evil Woman
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Men Rule Tree
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Development Inspirational Sacrifice
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Forever Funny Life Young
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Friendship Move See World
If 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…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Funny Life Woman
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science