Will Stanton
Will Stanton
William Stanton may refer to:...
bible block biblical
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
atheism reason embrace
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
honor intellectual noble
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
truth giving world
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
past men long
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.
believe teaching men
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 her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.
responsibility rights soul
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
men injury mankind
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
friendship self feelings
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
house support feminist
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.
fall archer arrows
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'
religion progress opponents
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ...
sex character men
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
development proportion increase
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.