Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Womens degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered."

"In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object."

"I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church."

"Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens."

"The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings."

"For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law."

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

"All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!"

"In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charless time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer."

"Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity."

"No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation."

"No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life."