We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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