The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is a solitude, which each one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourselves, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is a solitude which each one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton