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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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