“… all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed, and the gloom connected with everything associated with the name of religion, the church, the parsonage, the graveyard, and the solemn, tolling bell.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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 of right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded women. There is not one which has not made her subject to man.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the intentions of the Creator.” But their platitudes have ceased to have any influence with those women who believe they have the same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men have.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“… not only do … women suffer … indignities 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.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Health