the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science. Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes From Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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 ubuntu change peace The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton aggravation church teaching Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. Elizabeth Cady Stanton diversity justice country American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government! Elizabeth Cady Stanton daughter law order The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wife mom mother The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. Elizabeth Cady Stanton superstitions influence religious Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme. Elizabeth Cady Stanton mother beauty peace My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day. Elizabeth Cady Stanton religious ideas religion You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton earth world religion The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton equality struggle past To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. Elizabeth Cady Stanton eye education way Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton human-beings logic humans I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: 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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton husband mother father Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home. Elizabeth Cady Stanton marriage inspiration struggle Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. Elizabeth Cady Stanton sacrifice opportunity men 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 real law long With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady Stanton age forever funny What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers? Elizabeth Cady Stanton daughter men father Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this. Elizabeth Cady Stanton abortion drs evil A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe Elizabeth Cady Stanton girl mother love
