All men & women are created equal.
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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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