With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNature, 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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 more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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