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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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