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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
-
-
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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 -
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON