The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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