All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep. Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes From Elizabeth Cady Stanton The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton soul christian memories To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton women pride father I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. Elizabeth Cady Stanton busy reason-why fitness I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton degradation atheism book The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman Elizabeth Cady Stanton oppression terrible church They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.' Elizabeth Cady Stanton archer arrows fall Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason. Elizabeth Cady Stanton embrace atheism reason The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience. Elizabeth Cady Stanton cripples admire desire I shall not grow conservative with age. Elizabeth Cady Stanton conservative age birthday The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible. Elizabeth Cady Stanton teaching men believe The queens in history compare favorably with the kings. Elizabeth Cady Stanton royalty queens kings It is the inalienable right of all to be happy. Elizabeth Cady Stanton happiness life So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable. Elizabeth Cady Stanton self feelings friendship All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! Elizabeth Cady Stanton intellectual honor needs How long will the heathens rage? Elizabeth Cady Stanton heathen rage long Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere. Elizabeth Cady Stanton holiday eye children We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to. Elizabeth Cady Stanton horse silly boys When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken. Elizabeth Cady Stanton taken men thinking I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can. Elizabeth Cady Stanton song sex art A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates. Elizabeth Cady Stanton men long past
