The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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.
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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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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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If 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…?
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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