Elizabeth Cady Stanton Long Quotations

religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do ...

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

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.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

How long will the heathens rage?

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.