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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Flower Garden Knowledge Satisfaction Simplicity Taste
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 STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex 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
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Courage Fear Life Light Moments Opinion Ourselves Policy Silence Soul Strength Truth
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Woman World
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
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…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
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 STANTON

Freedom Greatness Hope Ignorance Justice Noble Principle Religion Wrong
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Enjoyment Freedom Suffering Thinking Time
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Constitution Death Live Man Survive Togetherness White
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Advantage Equality Government People Protection
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