The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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