Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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 has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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 more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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