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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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