It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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