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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMy 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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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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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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