Elizabeth Cady Stanton quotes

" Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. " # Truth

" With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals " # Age and Aging # Courage # Life and Living

" Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. " # Responsibility # Conscience # Judgment and Judges

" The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. " # Christians and Christianity # Churches # Feminism

" Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. " # Sacrifice

" To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. " # Law and Lawyers

" 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. " # Truth # Love # Life and Living

" I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. " # Health # Business # Reason

" 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. " # Judaism and Jews # Books - Reading # Morality

" Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. " # Responsibility # Conscience # Faith