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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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 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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Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.
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How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.
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All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.
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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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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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