I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and 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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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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