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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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“Among the many important questions which have been brought before the public, there is none that more vitally affects the whole human family than that which is technically termed Woman's rights.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: Woman's Rights, feminism, Suffrage, Patriarchy
“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 Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Marriage, Patriarchy
“In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Patriarchy, Kleptomaniac, Oppressed, Misogyny
“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
Tagged: newborn, Soul, Sea of Life
“Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Men, Self-Sacrifice, Cardinal Virtues, charming
“I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Tagged: Discontent, Defiance
“Man cannot speak for us—because he has been educated to believe that we differ from him so materially, that he cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions by his own. Moral beings can only judge of others by themselves—the moment they give a different nature to any of their own kind they utterly fail.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: Morality, Patriarchy, Sexism, Misogyny, feminism
“Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Gender war, Patriarchy, Matriarchy, Subjection, scripture
“To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
Tagged: Equality, Political Equality, punishment, Self-Respect
“Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887(Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B. Anthony)
Tagged: Susan B. Anthony, Morbidity, Reformation, Ancient Greece, Stoic, Calvinist, King Charles, Puritanism
“The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: White Saxon Man, negro, Women, Prejudice, racism, Sexism
“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: Courage, Protection, Women, strength, Empowering
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 50 Badass Quotes From 50 Badass Women
Tagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she has no voice...”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments- Wikipedia
Tagged: History, Mankind, tyranny, Franchise, voting, Suffrage
“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 the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing...”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Patriarchy, Maternity, British Parliament, Queen Victoria
“The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Mosaic Code, Judeo-Christian Tradition, Religion, Misogyny, Sexism, Patriarchy
“From the man of highest mental cultivation, to the most degraded wretch who staggers in the streets do we hear ridicule and coarse jests, freely bestowed upon those who dare assert that woman stands by the side of man—his equal, placed here by her God to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is her home as it is his—having the same sense of right and wrong and looking to the same Being for guidance and support.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: Equality, Suffrage, feminism
“It is the general opinion that with age must come decrepitude, that its inevitable accompaniments are wigs, spectacles, ear trumpets, false teeth, weak knees, asthma, neuralgia and rheumatism. This is by no means the case. I know several old gentlemen on the shady side of eighty who read without spectacles, whose hearing is as keen as a rabbit's, who can walk as briskly as most men of forty, and have as keen a zest as ever in all there is in life worth enjoying.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: Aging, Decreptitude, Wigs, Ear Trumpets, Rheumatism
“The canon and civil law; church and state; priests and legislators; all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man. Creeds, codes, Scriptures and statutes, are all based on this idea. The fashions, forms, ceremonies and customs of society, church ordinances and discipline all grow out of this idea.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Tagged: Civil Law, Creeds, scripture, Patriarchy, Sexism in Religion
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