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 More Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton More Quotes From Elizabeth Cady Stanton It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex. Elizabeth Cady Stanton rain spring sex Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude. Elizabeth Cady Stanton shoes real law It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained. Elizabeth Cady Stanton kings home men ... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together. Elizabeth Cady Stanton sailing swimming white Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lonely dark sex All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton law discovery book the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science. Elizabeth Cady Stanton class fiction art If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it. Elizabeth Cady Stanton sunshine destiny children I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything. Elizabeth Cady Stanton discontent dare long 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 lunch speak tables All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep. Elizabeth Cady Stanton genius age sleep Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing. Elizabeth Cady Stanton speech talking thinking The great fault of mankind is that it will not think. Elizabeth Cady Stanton faults mankind thinking I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after. Elizabeth Cady Stanton mother men thinking Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots. Elizabeth Cady Stanton blessing christian names No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has-beens soul sea I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor Elizabeth Cady Stanton block men years The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton race children fall Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position. Elizabeth Cady Stanton responsibility self character Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton punishment intellectual self
