A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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[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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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