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 STANTONThe history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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