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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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