A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo 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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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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