Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

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

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

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.

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.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

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

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

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

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.