Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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