Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“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

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." — Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton