Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to assume the cares of a woman."

"That woman should have the same opportunities for education as man is a logical necessity."

"The facts of history show that the Bible was written by men."

"If God has made us in his image, then surely a woman is as much in God's image as man."

"The natural order of things is that woman should do the cooking."

"Strength is a common virtue in man; how much more it should be in woman."

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and I have never yet heard a man go out of his way to praise a woman."

"The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex."

"The day may be approaching when the world will recognize woman."

"In my opinion, the only way out of this difficulty is to acknowledge all women as persons under the law."

"Self-denial is not the highest virtue; we must each live out our own life to its fullest."

"I declare myself a rebel against the social system that denies women their rights."

"The marriage contract is the only ladder by which a woman can rise."

"It requires some courage to live out one's convictions in this world."

"I have sacrificed more for the antislavery cause than for any other."

"The most arrogant of the male creatures cannot deny that woman is the equal of man in all intellectual capacities."

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume a position that does not accord with our previous assumptions, I declare it a truth."

"Why should women be denied the opportunity to develop all their faculties?"

"The great fact that women are human is often lost sight of in the details of social arrangements."

"I have endeavored to elevate woman to her true position."

"In singleness I have found a freedom I could never know in marriage."

"The fact that man can read does not make him wise."

"I am not afraid of anything that is coming because I know who sent it."

"Let woman then go to work; all avocations of life are filled by her."

"The greatest block to women's advancement is the tendency to underestimate their own powers."

"I consider myself a realist; I believe in facing facts."

"The very first requirement in a woman is that her down trodden soul is roused to self respect."

"I have been too deeply interested in the world's thought to be the subject of its ridicule."

"It was we, the people—not we, the white male citizens—but we, the whole people."

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