To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self-sovereignty. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded women. There is not one which has not made her subject to man. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. Elizabeth Cady Stanton