To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMy religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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 more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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