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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Elizabeth Cady Stanton quotes

American Activist November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your..."
Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes AND The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. AND We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like..."
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain... Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your..."
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
The best protection any woman can have... is courage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.* Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as..."
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things..."
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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