270 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.