Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwas an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 November 1815
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
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.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.