Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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