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Woman Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are…
- 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…
- American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low…
- Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
- The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
- A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
- The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem…
- The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
- The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
- Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
- The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
- Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
- 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…
- 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…
- To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so…
- The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
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