Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on friendship
Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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