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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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 woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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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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