Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwas an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 November 1815
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.