Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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