A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONReligious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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…?
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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