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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Friendship Move See World
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Creation Equality Men One Liner Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Man Oppression Slave Woman
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Equality Politics Respect
[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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Home Mother Present Role Women
In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Freedom Greatness Hope Ignorance Justice Noble Principle Religion Wrong
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Age Forever Funny Life Young
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Development Equality Fall Justice Liberty Nature Possible Race Religion Rise Teaching
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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Angry Beautiful Beauty Love Mother Peace Place Rain Rule Sea Togetherness
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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History Injury Kind Man Men Woman

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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