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Women Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17 Women quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s advocacy was as relentless as it was eloquent. In these seventeen snippets you’ll feel the drive behind her push for suffrage and legal reform, each line echoing the steadfast resolve that propelled the women’s movement forward.

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All men & women are created equal

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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

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Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

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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's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman…

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for…

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I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of…

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[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the…

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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill…

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To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply…

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No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do…

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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads…

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Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of…

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“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her…

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The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer…

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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…

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“How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance…

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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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