I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEvery truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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