Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Strength #Courage #Peace

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

#Motivational #Inspiring #Sad

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

#Birthday #Two Sides #Heyday

“When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Atheist #Prayer #Book

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

#Responsibility #Judging #Judgment

“When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Children #Abortion #Fit

“That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Real #Law #Long

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

#Education #Eye #Way

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

#Development #Increase #Proportion

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

#Fitness #Busy #Reason

“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

#Atheist #Book #Law

“The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Church #Oppression #Terrible

“Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Country #Justice #Sacred

“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Daughter #Father #Men

“Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Men #May #Bears

“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Mom #Mother #Wife

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

#Struggle #Past #Equality

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

#Inspiring #Women #Equality

“There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Eye #Angel #Men

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

#Moving #Dew #Wipe

“Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Logic #Humans #Vindictiveness

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

#Bible #Block #Biblical

“Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Women #Rights #Law

“How long will the heathens rage?”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Long #Rage #Heathen

“The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Believe #Men #Religion

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

#Teaching #Aggravation #Church

“With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Forever #Age #Would Be

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Girl #Witty #Women

“Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Beauty #Mother #Nature

“To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Running #Real #Self