The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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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 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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