"I would have girls regard themselves not as……" — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns."
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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103 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has 103 quotes on this site.
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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to…
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We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or…
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never…
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human…
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place,…
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I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every…
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything…
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Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy…
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions,…
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked…
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More Adjectives Quotes
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one of 137 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this…
— Alison Brie
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,…
— Maya Angelou
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
— Hal Borland
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
— Guy de Maupassant
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
— Mark Twain
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat…
— Anton Chekhov
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