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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Man Oppression Slave Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Literature Myself Regard Woman
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Nature Oneself Possible Soul Spiritual Success
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Friendship Move See World
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Health Myself Reason
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Learning Safety Truth
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Complete Smooth Surface
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Ourselves Woman
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Development Equality Fall Justice Liberty Nature Possible Race Religion Rise Teaching
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book Consistency Literature Religious
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Logic Lose