The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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