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.
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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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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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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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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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[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.
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