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.
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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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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We 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.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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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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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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