270 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

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.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

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.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.