We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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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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