With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWith age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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 STANTONYou who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONHuman beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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 STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOut of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONReligious 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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMy religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIf the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON