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 STANTONWoman’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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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