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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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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.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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