Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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…?
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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.
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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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