The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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