Quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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

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

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she mig