Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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