270 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

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.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.

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

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

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