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 STANTONI shall not grow conservative with age.
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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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