I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking. Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes From Elizabeth Cady Stanton Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writing men book There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women? Elizabeth Cady Stanton abortion cry evil The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton responsibility opportunity giving The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. Elizabeth Cady Stanton stronger color sex But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love. Elizabeth Cady Stanton conjugal beautiful love We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. Elizabeth Cady Stanton diversity citizens justice It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another. Elizabeth Cady Stanton appreciate impossible class Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. Elizabeth Cady Stanton truth inspirational ideas All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example. Elizabeth Cady Stanton example men religion Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul. Elizabeth Cady Stanton The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton woman mind education life The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. Elizabeth Cady Stanton woman law bible today The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton human slavery women history The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will. Elizabeth Cady Stanton right must will use To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling 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... be longer quietly submitted to. Elizabeth Cady Stanton belong ignorant rights silly The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain. Elizabeth Cady Stanton freedom prayer god work There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be. Elizabeth Cady Stanton she woman man mother
