Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

About Elizabeth Cady Stanton:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
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He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own po...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or th...

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

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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 heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Author Bio

  • NameElizabeth Cady Stanton
  • DescriptionSuffragist and Women's Rights activist
  • BornNovember 12, 1815
  • DiedOctober 26, 1902
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Suffrage Activist (female); Women's Rights Activist; Abolitionist
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame