Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou 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?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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