Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The voice of woman must echo through the halls of history."

"I have loved life, and I have loved the struggle for justice."

"Woman is the architect of her own destiny when given the freedom to be."

"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 republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

"I have been the best of friends with many political opponents, but I have never been the friend of their principles."

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

"Resolved, that woman is man's equal—was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such."

"If we would not flatter ourselves, we must learn how to be told of our faults by others."

"I feel, as never before, that this is a crisis through which the world must pass."

"The education of women should be adapted to the condition in which they are to act."

"A little practice of the golden rule we all acknowledge to be good."

"I think the girl who is forced into marriage before she knows what she is about is as much a slave as the plantation negro."

"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men in the qualities of fidelity, purity, morality, and virtue."

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

"I declare myself not obligated to yield to the obedience which the law of the state demands."

"Ridicule may paint virtue in an odious form, but it cannot make it essentially otherwise."

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, we signal to the world that it may govern us."

"In the matter of education, I can say with truth that it opened my eyes to a broader universe."

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

"I declare to you that the day may come when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"The right idea will prevail and error will be corrected."

"Self development is a higher duty than self sacrifice."

"What has been will be, and what will be has been; and God seeketh that which is passed away."

"I can not believe that it is the intention of the Almighty to expose the weakness of my nature to the snares and temptations of the world."

"The memory of my childhood in that quiet town is like the memory of spring in winter."

"It is a sobering fact that politics are often decided by those who are least qualified to decide them."

"I do not believe God ever made a woman that was not fit to be a mother."

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

"The greatest happiness I have ever known has been the cultivation of my mind."