The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAll 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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