Quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

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

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

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.

You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." — Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.