I shall not grow conservative with age.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWomanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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 heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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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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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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 first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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