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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
— 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 stable government.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
How long will the heathens rage?
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims ...
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton