Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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.
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All men & women are created equal.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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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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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…?
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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