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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThough 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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 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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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.
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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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