Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIf the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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 happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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