Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

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

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

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

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

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

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

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

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

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

All honour to the noblewomen that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

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

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

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

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

A woman has been the great unpaid labourer of the world.

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

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

All men & women are created equal

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

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.