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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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 has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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[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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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