Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

‘Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice’, should be a woman’s motto henceforward.

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

As to woman’s subjection…it is important to note that equal dominion is given to woman over every living thing, but not one word is said giving man dominion over woman.

Although woman has performed much of the labor of the world, her industry and economy have been the very means of increasing her degradation.

Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman’s true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wife hood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.