The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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All men & women are created equal.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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