Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

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• Superstition
• Scientific Facts

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• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

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• 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
  • Happy
  • Proportion
  • Superstition