Eliazabeth Cady Stanton

Quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • "The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion."

  • "The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."

  • "The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."

  • "Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions."

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