Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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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.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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