The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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