[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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