Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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.
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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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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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