Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

… not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.

History

Philosophy

Song

… our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

Boys

Past

Sex

… so long as woman labors to second man’s endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

Character

Men

Sex

… strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Sailing

Swimming

White

… the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

Children

Humanity

Sympathy

… women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.

Color

Men

Sex

… women learned one important lesson–namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women’s feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement…. I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

Men

War

Years

[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

Home

Mother

Women

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

Government

People

Protection

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

Girl

Love

Mother

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Add

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Age

Aggravation

Air

Ambition

Angel

Appreciate

Archer

Arrows

Art

Asceticism

Atheism

Atheist

Authority

Average

Bears

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Bible

Biblical

Birthday

Blessing

Block

Book

Boston

Boys

Busy

Change

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Children

Christian

Church

Citizens

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Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

… not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.

… so long as woman labors to second man’s endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

… strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

… women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.

[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

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