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
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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!
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.