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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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[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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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