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
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the… — 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
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
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
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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
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
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
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 individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her… — 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 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 before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play… — 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 higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
