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 STANTONWhat will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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.
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