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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Friendship Move See World
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Learning Safety Truth
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.
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Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
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…?
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Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
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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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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Growth Happiness Ideas Place Religious
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Human Logic Lose
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Literature Myself Regard Woman
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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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Book Consistency Literature Religious
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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Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Happiness Human Life Right
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
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.
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Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Creation Equalty Evidence Hold Man Truth Woman
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Equality Politics Respect
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Old Progress Thinking Victory
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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Flower Garden Knowledge Satisfaction Simplicity Taste

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