Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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