Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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 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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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