Quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors to shield himself behind the gentle being he has declared to be so dear. 'The woman thou gavest to be with me, she gave me and I did eat,' he whines—trying to shield himself at his wife's expense! Again we are amazed that upon such a story men have built up a theory of their superiority!

To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

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

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

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

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.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

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

The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.