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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[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.
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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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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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