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Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton - (18 quotes)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Aging category:

I shall not grow conservative with age. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Aging category:

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Education category:

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Fear category:

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)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Gender category:

- Our Girls...
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Gender category:

- Solitude of Self...
Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Happiness category:

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Health category:

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Humanity category:

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Importance category:

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Love category:

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)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Movement category:

-b.1815 d.1902...
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Perseverance category:

In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Philosophy category:

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Religion category:

-b.1815 d.1902...
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Responsibility category:

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Uniqueness category:

-Solitude of Self...
Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - From the Universe category:

-b.1815 d.1902...
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)