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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
