Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life, Truth, Fear

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Moving, Friend, Off

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Courage, Best, Woman

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human, Lose, Logic

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life, Woman, Side

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women, Greatest, Church

I shall not grow conservative with age.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Age, Grow, Shall

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

Universe, Earth, Holy

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

Women, Religious, Bondage

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing, Conscience, Individual

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

Women, History, Human

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

Busy, Why, Reason

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

Education, Eyes, Obstacles

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

Religion, Christian, Soul

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women, Whole, Last

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

Woman, Her, Discontent

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

Done, Thought, Learned

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men, History, Alone

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

Women, Men, Hold

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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

History, Woman, Nothing

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Impossible, Another, Appreciate

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Today, Greatest, Woman

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

History, Equality, Struggle

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

Move, Complete, Surface

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 12, 1815

Died: October 26, 1902

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