[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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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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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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 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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