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 STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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