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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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