To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEvery truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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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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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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