The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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