Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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All men & women are created equal.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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