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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 account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
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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.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
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Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?
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When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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... strike the words white male from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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