I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONGod, 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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 best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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