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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Memories Oneself Religion Shadow Suffering Young
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Conscience Desire Love Respect
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Logic Lose
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

End Family God Human Togetherness Violence Wisdom
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Body Feminist House Professional Support
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book Consistency Literature Religious
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Advantage Equality Government People Protection
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

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
[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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Home Mother Present Role Women
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Development Equality Fall Justice Liberty Nature Possible Race Religion Rise Teaching
All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Creation Equality Men One Liner Woman
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Enjoyment Freedom Suffering Thinking Time
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

Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Learning Safety Truth