I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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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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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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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.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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