My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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