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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b: Johnstown, New York, Nov 12, 1815

d: New York, New York, 26, 1902

American. Feminist, Social Reformer. Co-founded women's rights movement with Lucretia Mott; first president National Woman Suffrage Association, 1869-90.

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A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

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.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

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

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

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.

If the object of government is to protect the weak against the strong, how unwise to place the power wholly in the hands of the strong.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe – the open sesame to every soul.

Men say we are ever cruel to each other. Let us end this ignoble record and henceforth stand by womanhood. If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes and plait the crown of thorns.

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

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

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

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

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

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

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.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

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

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

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

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

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

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

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.

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

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

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

Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

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

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

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other.