Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Church
• Religion
• Bible
• Souls
• Punishment

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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Bible