If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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