Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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[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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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?
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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