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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Health Myself Reason
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
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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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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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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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Body Feminist House Professional Support
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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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 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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Literature Myself Regard Woman
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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All men & women are created equal.
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Creation Equality Men One Liner Woman
[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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Home Mother Present Role Women
I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Age Attitude Growth Myself
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
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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