The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOur ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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All men & women are created equal.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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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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