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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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