I 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 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 STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEvery truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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 STANTONThe memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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 STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhile women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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 STANTON