Top 30 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.