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
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
Interpretation
Marriage is a deep bond between two people that brings them mutual support and happiness.
In this quote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton emphasizes the profound connection of marriage, describing it as a fusion of two souls that generates love, friendship, and inspiration. She suggests that this intimate partnership is essential for achieving true happiness and stability in life, forming the fundamental basis for a lasting home and family.
In practice
A wedding ceremony where the officiant quotes this to emphasize the importance of their union.
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 imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.
Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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