I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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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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What 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?
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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