Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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