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 STANTONThe new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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