Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONBecause man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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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.
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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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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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[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 desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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