Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself, and there I take my stand."

"The true woman is as yet a lost creation."

"Failure is impossible."

"I have been called a feminist, and that is something I am proud of."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man."

"Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights."

"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman."

"I feel as a woman, keenly, all the wrongs of my sex."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"In the matter of education, I can only say that I have not the remotest idea what is taught to women."

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is."

"The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, is the solitude and personal responsibleness of her own individual life."

"If God designed a different constitution, different powers, and different capacities, there must be a purpose in them."

"Woman must have a purpose and be active."

"I have been called a feminist, and that is something I am proud of because feminism means striving for equality."

"I declare myself an abolitionist of slavery and an advocate for the equal rights of all women."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"No matter what abuse, what degradation woman has been subjected to, she has always been the equal of man in her passions and her principles."

"We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever."

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself."

"The education of girls has never yet received the attention to which it is entitled."

"If we believe that historical events are important, we must believe that it is important to know how they occurred."

"I have wandered from the subject, because my thoughts are always upon that which lies nearest my heart."

"The true science of the nineteenth century is the science of society."

"I believe that the God of Nature has made it a law that like should cleave to like."

"If God intended woman to vote, He would have given her the same brains that He gave to man."

"The right idea of man is not what he is, but what he aims to become."

"In this assumption of the rights of man, we but assert the prerogative of our race."