Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.Collection: Men
[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.Collection: Mother
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.Collection: Character
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?Collection: Funny
... 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.Collection: Swimming
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.Collection: Life
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.Collection: Men
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.Collection: Women
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.Collection: Beauty
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!Collection: Daughter
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.Collection: Children
We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.Collection: Sex
When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.Collection: Thinking
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.Collection: Self
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.Collection: Years
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.Collection: Kings
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!Collection: Men
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.Collection: Religious