Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”

“The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.”

“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”

“I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.”

“To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.”

“Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.”

“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.”

“It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.”

“I shall not grow conservative with age.”

“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”