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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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