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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
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It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.
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Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
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
The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect of credit in the market place of recompense in the world of work of a voice among those who make and administer the law a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
