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.
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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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