I shall not grow conservative with age.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONBecause man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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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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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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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