Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON[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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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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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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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