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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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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
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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 wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of 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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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
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I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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[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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What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.
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... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
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Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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