Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

1815-1902, American Social Reformer and Women's Suffrage Leader
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“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”
Health
“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”
VerifiedAddress to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860; as published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith. · evidenceLaw and Lawyers
“Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”
Responsibility
“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”
Christians and Christianity
“We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.”
Judaism and Jews