It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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