The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOut 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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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 first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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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