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 STANTON
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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