The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI shall not grow conservative with age.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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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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