"When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*"

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About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social reformer and central leader in the 19th-century women's rights movement. She helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and coauthored the Declaration of Sentiments.

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