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 STANTONTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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