The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEve 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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