My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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