The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read Quote