It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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