To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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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 best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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 history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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