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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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.
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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 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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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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