Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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?
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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