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.
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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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