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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIf 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…?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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