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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWith age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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