Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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