Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"I have always held that a woman has a right to work according to her capacity."

"The subjection of women has always been the core of all slavery."

"I declare that woman must be free in order for man to be truly free."

"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 dream of the future."

"I have been called a troublemaker, and I wear that badge with honor."

"Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise."

"I feel as anger all my life against injustice, and that anger has sustained me."

"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one soul with shame."

"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development."

"I declare to you that I am not afraid."

"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."

"I am satisfied that when we are all dead and gone, the work we have done will speak for itself."

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"Forget conditionals. I am a woman determined to live fully."

"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."

"The fault is not in our stars but in our conventions."

"I declare a woman's right to be whatever she wishes to be."

"Keep one thing foremost in your mind: that women have brains."

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

"I have all the dispositions of a martyr; but not the cause."

"Selfhood comes before sisterhood."

"I wish that women would invest more faith in themselves."

"The fashions of society dictate what women should be, but I choose what I will be."

"To deny a woman her right to be educated is to deny her the tools of self-improvement."

"Woman has been called the weaker sex for so long that she has begun to believe it."

"Let woman occupy the same legal position as man and there is no fear she will not know what to do."

"I am working myself to death, but I am happy in my work."

"The Bible has been used to justify every conceivable wrong."