So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness – united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How long will the heathens rage?

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton – oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday – opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women’s wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. – Seneca Falls Convention, 1848.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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