Feminism Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads…

— 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…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton