There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIt is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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