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
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Interpretation
Prioritizing personal growth is more important than sacrificing one's self for others.
This quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton emphasizes the importance of self-development over self-sacrifice. It suggests that improving oneself and one's abilities is not only a personal responsibility but also a higher duty, as it ultimately enables one to contribute more effectively to others and society as a whole.
In practice
In a speech about personal responsibility and growth.
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.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
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