"Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do t...

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~










Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton quotes
"Woman's 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.
"We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in...
"Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates...
"How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the...
"We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in...


