The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The best protection any woman can have … is courage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You 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

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We hold these truths to be self–evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Embrace truth as it is revealed to–day by human reason. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God, 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 Stanton

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions–requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs–there was no attention given to preparation for this office. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We come into this world alone, unlike all who have gone before us…Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self–dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton