Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (American Social Reformer)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902,) née Cady, was an American social reformer who started the U.S.’s suffrage movement. With Lucretia Mott, she organized the first U.S. women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. From 1852, she led the women’s rights movement with Susan B. Anthony.

Born in Johnstown, New York, Stanton studied law under her congressman father. She decided to readdress the inequality discovered in women’s legal, political, and industrial rights and divorce law. In 1840, she married the lawyer and abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton.

In 1848, with abolitionist Lucretia Mott, Stanton organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, which started the women’s suffrage movement and accepted the set of resolutions to improve the status of women, which Stanton had drawn up.

Stanton teamed up with Susan B. Anthony in 1850, creating the radical feminist magazine Revolution (1868–70) and founding the National Woman Suffrage Movement in 1869. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (called, from 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association) 1869–92.

With Mott and suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, Stanton collected three of the six volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881–86.) She also wrote her memoirs, Eighty Years and More 1815–97 (1898.) Stanton’s daughter was the suffragist Harriot Stanton Blatch.

Notable biographies include Elisabeth Griffith’s In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1984) and Lois W Banner’s Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women’s Rights (1980.)

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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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