The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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