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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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 STANTON

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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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