The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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If 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…?
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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