Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.Collection: Religion
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.Collection: History
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.Collection: Women
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?Collection: History
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.Collection: Freedom
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.Collection: History
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.Collection: History
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Women
I shall not grow conservative with age.Collection: Age
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.Collection: Mom
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Education
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.Collection: Women
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.Collection: Education
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
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 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.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.Collection: Inspirational
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.Collection: Government
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.Collection: Girl
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.Collection: Truth
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.Collection: Victory
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.Collection: Equality
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.Collection: Believe
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.Collection: Believe
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.Collection: Desire
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.Collection: Life
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offeCollection: Love
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.Collection: Change
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.Collection: Religion
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.Collection: Success