The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWomanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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.
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All men & women are created equal.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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