Quotes by : Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code we....

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman,....

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than....

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston....

We should give to our rulers, our sires and sons no rest until all our rights— social, civil and political—....

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.....

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can....