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
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient… — 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
“Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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 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
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — 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
The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and… — 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
