You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSelf-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONLove 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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONProgress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEvery truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAmong the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONBecause man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON