Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.
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I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
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A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.
