Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’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.
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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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The 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.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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