We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees. — 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
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates,… — 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 long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — 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
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may… — 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
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will… — 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
