Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAll men & women are created equal.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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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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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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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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