The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONA woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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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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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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