Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

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.

How long will the heathens rage?

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

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.

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?

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." — Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

All men & women are created equal

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.