The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

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

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

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