You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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All men & women are created equal.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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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.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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