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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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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.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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