The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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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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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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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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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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