A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONA government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONGod, 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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWomanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHeavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONCome, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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 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 STANTONI decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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 STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON