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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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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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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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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 shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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