When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Interpretation
The quote asserts the inherent equality of all people, regardless of gender.
This quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton emphasizes the fundamental belief that every person, irrespective of gender, is entitled to equal rights and dignity. By declaring these truths as self-evident, Stanton argues that equality should not need justification or debate; it is a natural and undeniable fact that all individuals are created equally deserving of freedom and opportunity.
In practice
During a speech advocating for women's rights.
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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.
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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