Elizabeth Cady Stanton citáty

„The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„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.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1860-06-14).
Kontext: Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

„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.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„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.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, kniha The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible (1898)

„I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.“

—  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 woman… I have been traveling over the old world during the last few years and have found new food for thought. What power is it that makes the Hindoo woman burn herself upon the funeral pyre of her husband? Her religion. What holds the Turkish woman in the harem? Her religion. By what power do the Mormons perpetuate their system of polygamy? By their religion/ Man, of himself, could not do this; but when he declares, 'Thus saith the Lord,' of course he can do it. So long as ministers stand up and tell us Christ is the head of the church, so is man the head of woman, how are we to break the chains which have held women down through the ages? You Christian women look at the Hindoo, the Turkish, the Mormon women, and wonder how they can be held in such bondage…

Now I ask you if our religion teaches the dignity of woman? It teaches us the abominable idea of the sixth century--Augustine's idea--that motherhood is a curse; that woman is the author of sin, and is most corrupt. Can we ever cultivate any proper sense of self-respect as long as women take such sentiments from the mouths of the priesthood?“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishement of an absolute tyrrany over her“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments

Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).
Kontext: The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishement of an absolute tyrrany over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of wich she has no voice...
Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, her has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

„The best protection any woman can have… is courage.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Zdroj: History of Woman Suffrage, Volumes I-III

„self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„You're dangerous."he says.
Why?"
Because you make me believe in the impossible."
— Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

„Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, kniha The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible (1898)
Zdroj: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

„Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning…We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.“

—  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1868-01-13).