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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women Picture Quote #1

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages Picture Quote #1

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage Picture Quote #1

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle Picture Quote #1

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple and enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it and hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do Picture Quote #1

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman Picture Quote #1

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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may not shine, and it is the same with every woman, and the same woman may have a different sphere at different times Picture Quote #1

Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production Picture Quote #1

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal Picture Quote #1

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking Picture Quote #1

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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women Picture Quote #1

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured Picture Quote #1

How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing Picture Quote #1

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection Picture Quote #1

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We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet Picture Quote #1

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home Picture Quote #1

... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not Picture Quote #1

The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities Picture Quote #1

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon Picture Quote #1

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry Picture Quote #1

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt Picture Quote #1

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with God. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination Picture Quote #1

Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone... There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this Picture Quote #1

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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple and enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it and hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may not shine, and it is the same with every woman, and the same woman may have a different sphere at different times (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) 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 (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) 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 Quotes) We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) ... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with God. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes) Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone... There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes)

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