Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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