I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWomanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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 STANTONI shall not grow conservative with age.
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 STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSelf-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONStrike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWith age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON