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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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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.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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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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