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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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.
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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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