Elizabeth Cady Stanton     SPEECHES & WRITINGS FILE     Speech notes [n.d.]

.1.
Gladstone
N. Y. Times
Hindu funeral
pyre.
Women in no [?] in China
In Turkish Harem
The Mormons 
Thus saith the Lord 

.2.
The women of this
republic

Our religion like
all others degrades
women by making
her man's inferior
his subject, giving 
him all power 
over her.



3.
Argue the question
of woman's equality
with any man
opposed to the idea
& when you corner
him logically on
general principles
he always takes
refuge in the Bible
this is his last
hiding place 

4
Bible been used
against all reforms
Temperance
Slavery | Capital
punishment
The unequal
distribution of
wealth.

5
and so too against
woman's freedom
If the Bible is a
revelation to women
they better study
it for themselves
& find out what
is in it.


6.
The creation of
woman.
All nature dual
The little deed
The allegory, the 
degradation the
curse

.7.
What a monstrous
idea, woman
cursed in her
maternity.
As mother woman
possesses a power
to which no man
can ever attain
a creative power
second to that
only of God himself 

.8.
Prenatal life
Locke, Descartes
To degrade woman 
in her motherhood
as this curse taken
literally does, is to
poison the very
fountains of life
& to make God a
monster.

.9.
To command woman
in one breath to 
multiply & replenish
the earth & then to
curse her for
obeying the command
makes God a 
monster of absurdities
& contradictions.

10.
Let women study
the laws of life
& obey them. & 
another generation 
will see an end
of this supposed curse
& they will enjoy the
same health & 
happiness as the men
by their side.

11
The new testament
has three injunctions
corresponding to
these three curses.
See in all cases
how men dispose
of theirs. Let woman
do the same.

12.
Consider the
women of the
Bible. Deborah; 
Huldah; Queen
of Sheba; Ruth
Naomi; bashti
Esther, & the 
women of the
New Testament
Jobs wife 

.13.     13
Many errors in
translation.
Women did preach
& hold office in
the early church
If an ass could
reprove Balaam
& the crowning of a cock
bring Peter to repentance
why may not a woman
rebuke sin

14
Paul you remember
gave directions to
women how they
should dress when 
they did preach 
The word [?"Caleb"]
has several meanings
All nations have
their scriptures & 
all alike claim
divine inspiration

15.
Seeing that as we
advance in civilization
we give higher
interpretations to the
Bibles laws constitution
it behooves us 
to reason, on all 
matters of faith
& life on all that
pertains to the here 
& hereafter.

16.
And for the higher
power religion of the
future woman must
contribute her thoughts
when she awakes
The artist


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