Top 30 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.