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All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
Abolitionist
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Feminist
Suffragist
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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.*
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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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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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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.
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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.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
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