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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth 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 STANTON

Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
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 STANTON

Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Crime Growth Help Illusion Misery Original Sin Victim Woman
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 STANTON

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Development Feeling Health Woman
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Change Enemy Ourselves Position Violence Woman
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Nature Oneself Possible Soul Spiritual Success
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Learning Safety Truth
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Literature Myself Regard Woman
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking