Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Quotes

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

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 moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.