Elizabeth Cady Stanton on government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton [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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton All men & women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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