To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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