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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 Stanton

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Creation Equalty Evidence Hold Man Truth Woman
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Feeling Proud Sex Woman Word
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
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 STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality History Man Oppression Past Struggle Woman
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Home Mother Present Role Women
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Best Courage Inspirational Motivational Protection Woman
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Ourselves Woman
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Growth Happiness Ideas Place Religious
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Development Need Reality Time