Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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