Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Motherhood, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

• To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Running, Real, Self

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1974). “The Original Feminist Attack on the Bible: (The Woman's Bible).”, Arno Press

• These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Inspiration

• I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Unknown Worlds, Giving, Shadow

• ... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Past, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.232, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Giving, Soul

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Truth, Giving, World

• The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Giving

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Giving, Support, Quality

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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