Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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?
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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