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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe best protection any woman can have… is courage.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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