Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Responsibility, Conscience
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Solitude
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Lawyers, Law
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.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Religion, Jews, Judaism
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Isolation
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
Topics: Giving
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Equality
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
Topics: Opinions
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Women
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Health
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.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Love
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Truth
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Topics: Christians, Christianity
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