Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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The 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.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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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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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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