Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• Self-Sacrifice
• Self-Development

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• I don't sign contracts for my books.

  

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• Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

  

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• I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

  

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

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• My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

  

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• The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.

  

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• God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

  

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• If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

  

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• Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

  

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• You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

  

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• A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

  

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  

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• You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

  

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• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  

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• Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Letters
  • Self-Sacrifice
  • Self-Development