Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOne remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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