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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.

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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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.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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.
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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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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
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I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.
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All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. 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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Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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