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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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