"It was just so in the American Revolution,……" — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish."
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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103 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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