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 STANTONA woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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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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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 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 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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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