Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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