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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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