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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Darkness Diversity History Human Oppression Slave Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Angry Beautiful Beauty Love Mother Peace Place Rain Rule Sea Togetherness
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Men Rule Tree
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Man Oppression Slave Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Crime Growth Help Illusion Misery Original Sin Victim Woman
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Memories Oneself Religion Shadow Suffering Young
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Development Need Reality Time
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Body Feminist House Professional Support
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Flower Garden Knowledge Satisfaction Simplicity Taste
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Complete Cry Death Evil Woman
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Complete Smooth Surface
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Happiness Human Life Right
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Growth Happiness Ideas Place Religious
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Courage Fear Life Light Moments Opinion Ourselves Policy Silence Soul Strength Truth
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul