Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — 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
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
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — 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
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my… — 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
