Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes.
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body… is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
