Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I shall not grow conservative with age.