Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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