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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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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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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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