I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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