Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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