The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's mov…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Elizabeth Cady StantonThe Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no lon…
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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?
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no lon…
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
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?
I shall not grow conservative with age.