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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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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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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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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 heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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