The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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[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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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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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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