We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONLove 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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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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[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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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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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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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