No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — 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… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
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
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
... 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
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. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much more ridiculous… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
