Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSelf-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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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.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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