Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Profession : Activist

Birth : November 12, 1815

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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