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 STANTONAmong the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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