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 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
-
-
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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 -
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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 -
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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 -
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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 -
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON