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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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