Quotes from The Woman's Bible — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815–1902 United States
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The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
The Woman's Bible (1898)
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.
The Woman's Bible (1898)