The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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