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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Ourselves Woman
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
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
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Literature Myself Regard Woman
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Development Inspirational Sacrifice
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Growth Happiness Ideas Place Religious
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Belief Ideas Law Man Ourselves Religion Right Sex Women
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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