When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote critiques religious institutions as obstacles to women's freedom and equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton argues that many religious beliefs and structures have historically restricted women's rights and freedoms, suggesting that the church and its doctrines serve as significant barriers to genuine emancipation. She highlights the influence of the Bible, canon law, and priesthood in perpetuating societal norms that limit women's roles and opportunities.
Themes
Women'S RightsEmancipationChurchReligionGender Equality
In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion about gender equality in a public forum, this quote can highlight the historical role of religion in women's oppression.
More from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All quotes βTo live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
Similar quotes
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
DogenRead
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
Katharine HepburnRead
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.
Saint Francis De SalesRead
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Albert CamusRead
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William JamesRead
The will of God is not something you add to your life. Itβs a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of Godβ¦or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
Elisabeth ElliotRead