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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

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book Consistency Literature Religious
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Happiness Human Life Right
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Believe Death Domination God Love Men Religion Sin Teaching World
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Blessing Father Food Heaven Humanity Life Mother Patience Prayer Preparation
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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Angry Beautiful Beauty Love Mother Peace Place Rain Rule Sea Togetherness
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
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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Attention Human Important Knowledge Mom Preparation Professional
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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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex 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.
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Children Ourselves Woman
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World