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When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies,...

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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...

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a b...

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Before I sit down I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives, or sweethearts will be very well looked after.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton