The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI shall not grow conservative with age.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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 best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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