Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”

“The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.”

“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.”

“Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?”

“The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.”

“Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848”

“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.”

“אין זה משנה כמה נשים מעדיפות להישען ולהיות מוגנות ונתמכות או עד כמה גברים רוצים שיהיו כאלה. עליהם לצעוד במשעול החיים לבד.”

“האכזבות העמוקות ביותר שלנו, תקוותינו הגדולות ביותר ושאיפותינו ידועות לעצמנו בלבד.”

“הרצון לאינטימיות. להיות בקשר הוא המצב הנורמלי... לפתע שינתה דעתה שהבדידות היא הנורמלית והקשר הוא האידאל.”

“דרך נושא מעמד האישה היא בחנה את זכות ההצבעה, נישואין, חינוך, גירושין ודת ממוסדת ותמיד שאלה: כיצד אלה נוצרו?”

“עבור נערה, רגשות עזים פירושם היה שאיפה לתשוקה רומנטית.”

“פוליטיקה צריכה להפחית מסבלו של האדם, ולא להוסיף לו.”

“Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”

“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.”

“We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.”

“When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”

“It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.”

“How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.”