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.
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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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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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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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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 heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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