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The Woman's Bible

: A Classic Feminist Perspective

The publication of The Woman's Bible represented the feminist pioneer's last strike at the roots of the ideology behind her gender's subordinate role in society. In keeping with her characteristic radical individualism, Stanton attacks religious orthodoxy

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (14)

“In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as ‘He,’ ‘His,’ ‘Him,’ we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns ‘She,’ ‘Hers’ and ‘Her,’ are not found in the constitutions.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Criminal Code, Gender Pronouns, Patriarchy, Sexism, Misogyny

“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.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Patriarchy, Kleptomaniac, Oppressed, Misogyny

“Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjectio…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Gender war, Patriarchy, Matriarchy, Subjection, scripture

“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 he…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Mosaic Code, Judeo-Christian Tradition, Religion, Misogyny, Sexism

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Conservative, Change, Progress

“The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Misogyny, History, Sexism, Patriarchy

“The canon and civil law; church and state; priests and legislators; all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man. Creeds, codes, Scriptures and statutes, are all based on this idea. The fashi…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Civil Law, Creeds, scripture, Patriarchy, Sexism in Religion

“One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. In common parlance we have much fine-spun theorizing on the exalted office of the mother, her immense influence in moulding the character of her sons; ‘the hand that rocks the cradle moves the world,’…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Motherhood, Patriarchy, Priesthood, Scriptures, Jews

“The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, an…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Bible, Patriarchy, Marriage, Maternity, Misogyny

“Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Marriage, Patriarchy

“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Patriarchy, Maternity, British Parliament, Queen Victoria

“To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Patriarchy, Marriage, Self-Respect, Insult

“It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Boston Tea Party, Sexism, Devil-Fish, Tenacity, American Revolution

“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.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Tagged: Men, Self-Sacrifice, Cardinal Virtues, charming