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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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