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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI shall not grow conservative with age.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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