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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
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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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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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Age Attitude Growth Myself
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Funny Life Woman
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
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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Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
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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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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Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World
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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Literature Myself Regard Woman
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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 decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
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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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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