Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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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.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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