With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in O Magazine (October 2003)
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
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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.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
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