We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
-
-
My 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 STANTON -
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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 STANTON -
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON