Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

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

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

All men & women are created equal

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

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

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

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

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

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

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