Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMy 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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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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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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