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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Atheism, Hebrew, Accepting

When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Thinking, Doubt, Atheism

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Atheism, Doctrine, Asceticism

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Atheism, Wizards, Facts

Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Years, Abuse, Atheism

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Believe, Law, Atheism

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Atheism, Reason, Embrace

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Enemy, Atheism, Violent

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Book, Atheism, Degradation

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2002). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”

I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious, Mind, Atheism

"The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible". Free Thought Magazine 14: 540, September 1896.

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious, Children, Atheism

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1993). “The Woman's Bible”, p.22, UPNE