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1. "Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2. "That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3. "I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
4. "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." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
5. "How long will the heathens rage?" ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
6. "To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
7. "Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8. "I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
9. "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." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10. "Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing..." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11. "Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12. "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.*" ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
13. "There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
14. "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
15. "Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
16. "The best protection any woman can have... is courage." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
17. "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
18. "The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
19. "The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
20. "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
21. "I shall not grow conservative with age." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
22. "The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
23. "The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
24. "The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
25. "We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?" ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
26. "To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
27. "Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
28. "I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
29. "I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
30. "The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
31. "The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
32. "Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
33. "Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848" ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
34. "Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women's self development is self-sacrifice." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
35. "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

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