Elizabeth Cady Stanton on children
Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“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.”
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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?
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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