I shall not grow conservative with age.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONProgress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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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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.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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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.
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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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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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