The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOur ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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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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[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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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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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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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