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Women Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
- We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
- The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was…
- When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank…
- Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the…
- Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are…
- All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
- Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we…
- All men & women are created equal
- If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women…
- American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low…
- There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if…
- So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
- No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must…
- Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is…
- Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
- The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
- The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
- The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
- The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
- The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
- The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
- The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
- Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are…
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