Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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 Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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