Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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