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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Complete Smooth Surface
Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Belief Ideas Law Man Ourselves Religion Right Sex Women
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book Consistency Literature Religious
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Body Feminist House Professional Support
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Death Fantasy History Magic Victim Woman
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Health Myself Reason
All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Creation Equality Men One Liner Woman
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Literature Myself Regard Woman
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Forever Funny Life Young