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 STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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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 happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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