Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONGod, 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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