Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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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.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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