Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

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

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

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.

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

To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

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.