I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEve 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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