Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes.
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.
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
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.
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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.
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
