Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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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