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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
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I shall not grow conservative with age.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
— 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 on earth.
— 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
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
But the love of offspring ... tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Safety. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, When the slave leaves bondage, his first act is to name himself.
— Gloria Steinem
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
— 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
Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
— 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
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
— 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
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
— 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
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All men & women are created equal
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
— 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