Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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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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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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