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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
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Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness-this is marriage and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
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No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.
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... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.
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A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
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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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It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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