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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious 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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Atheist Book Lesson Motivational Nature Religion Teaching
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Happiness Human Life Right
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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Book Consistency Literature Religious
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Burn Death Fantasy History Magic Victim Woman
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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Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Equality Politics Respect
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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Crime Growth Help Illusion Misery Original Sin Victim Woman
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Human Logic Lose
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Attention Human Important Knowledge Mom Preparation Professional
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Home Mother Present Role Women
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
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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Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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