Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIf 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…?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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