“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Suffragist and Women's Rights activist 1815–1902

Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer

Rival Caesars (1903)

“Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.”

Stephen Jay Gould book Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

"Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 320
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”

Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens

As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)
History of the Peloponnesian War

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef

“For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

The Freethinker's Text Book: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its ... http://books.google.co.in/books?id=9Ja-JNYYySYC&pg=PT262

“The Abolitionists were right in their attitude to the Church. Slavery and the Church were side by side: the Church was at peace with slavery: men were sold to build churches, women sold to pay missionaries, and children sold to buy Bibles. We did right to oppose it.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

1890s, Speech at the Abolitionist Reunion in Boston (1890)

“I have always been astonished that women are allowed to enter churches. What talk can they have with God?”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

“The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block, as a confidant and not as a rival.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old

“Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?”

Leon R. Kass (1939) American academic

Source: The Problem of Technology (1993), p. 9

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