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 STANTONA woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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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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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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