Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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[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.
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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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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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