Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."

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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 woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."

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"The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life."

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"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."

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