270 Quotes by 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.

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

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

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.

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

All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.