Sex Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11 Sex quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton links the fight for women's rights to personal autonomy. In these brief statements she frames sex as a ground for equality and self‑determination.

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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

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I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my…

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The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the…

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There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may…

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Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely…

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... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but…

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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as…

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It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much…

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... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is…

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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…

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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity…

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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

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Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her…

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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to…

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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

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Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that…

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The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned…

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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a…

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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

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It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much more ridiculous…

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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…

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