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.
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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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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 history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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