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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Advantage Equality Government People Protection
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Creation Equalty Evidence Hold Man Truth Woman
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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Best Courage Inspirational Motivational Protection Woman
[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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Home Mother Present Role Women
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Human Nature Oneself Possible Soul Spiritual Success
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Development Feeling Health Woman
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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.
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Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
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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Alone Development Need Reality Time
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Change Enemy Ourselves Position Violence Woman
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Man Oppression Slave Woman
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Children Ourselves Woman
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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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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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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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