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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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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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