Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
We should give to our rulers, our sires and sons no rest until all our rights— social, civil and pol...
Show MoreThe religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences...
Show MoreThe best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...
Show MoreThe bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the supersti...
Show MoreSocial science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the o...
Show MoreWhen women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books...
Show MoreSo it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone...
Show MoreTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrad...
Show MoreWe are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the rulin...
Show MoreThe history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible t...
Show MoreDid I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the publ...
Show MoreI shall not grow conservative with age.
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than...
Show MoreWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing tha...
Show MoreThe best protection any woman can have... is courage.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and...
Show Moreself-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this...
Show MoreThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat ou...
Show MoreTruth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Bo...
Show MoreTo-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according ...
Show MoreMen never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and poli...
Show MoreThink of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times...
Show MoreOur civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...
Show MoreWe ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...
Show MoreOne would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...
Show MoreWe cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.
How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards wo...
Show MoreWhatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can...
Show MoreWe ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...
Show MoreThe happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own soul...
Show MoreHe has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphe...
Show MoreWoman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all found...
Show MoreNature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...
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