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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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All men & women are created equal.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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