Elizabeth Cady Stanton on blessing
Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.”
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton All men & women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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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