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

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

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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