Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.

Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

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

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

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

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.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

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

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

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.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

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.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.