270 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

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

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.