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 STANTONThe history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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 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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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