Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women Quotations

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

All men & women are created equal

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

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.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.