Best Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Top 10)
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton