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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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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

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