Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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