Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American writer and activist (1815 to 1902), a leader of the US women's rights movement; the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments.
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No question is more important than freeing women from past political, religious and social dogmas
To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.
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No question is more important than freeing women from past political, religious and social dogmas
To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
Abolitionists who felt the slave's wrongs were blind to the equal legal wrongs of their own mothers, wives and sisters
It struck me as very remarkable that abolitionists, who felt so keenly the wrongs of the slave, should be so oblivious to the equal wrongs of their own mothers, wives, and sisters, when, according to the common law, both classes occupied a similar legal status.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
A liberal divorce law is wise
In listening to the facts in her case, my mind was fully made up as to the wisdom of a liberal divorce law.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
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The early case for liberal divorce was not wrong, only made before people were ready to hear it
What I said on divorce thirty-seven years ago seems quite in line with what many say now. The trouble was not in what I said, but that I said it too soon, and before the people were ready to hear it.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
Women owe their liberty to no religion; their religious nature has always been perverted to subject them
I took the ground that woman was not indebted to any form of religion for the liberty she now enjoys, but that, on the contrary, the religious element in her nature had always been perverted for her complete subjection.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
Governments, religions and scriptures are human inventions, and women who see this will no longer be oppressed by claims of divine command
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayerbooks, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brain of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of "Thus saith the Lord."
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
The Pentateuch's writers made God jealous and revengeful, and no other books so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman
Surely the writers had a very low idea of the nature of their God. They make Him not only anthropomorphic, but of the very lowest type, jealous and revengeful, loving violence rather than mercy. I know no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898) Said c. 1898
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