Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
Human NatureOrder and ChaosPower and ControlSociety and Governance The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
EqualityGender DiscriminationHistoryHuman RightsJustice The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
EqualityFreedomHuman Rights We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Equality and JusticeGender EqualityLimitations and CapabilitiesSocietal Expectations There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
FaithFreedomJusticePerseverance The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
EmpowermentHistoryInjusticeRace RelationsStruggle We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Gender RolesSelf-SupportSocietal ExpectationsWomen S Empowerment Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
AuthorityContemptLawLegislationObedience To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
DevelopmentDiscontentGenderProgressSociety Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
KnowledgePhilosophyReligionScience Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
HappinessIdealsPrincipleReformUnity 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.
Class DivideEmpathyInequalitySocial JusticeUnderstanding It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
FeminismGender InequalityReligionSocial BondageSuperstition The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
HealthPerseveranceProductivityResilienceWork Ethic I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
CourageDeterminationEqualityLearningSelf-Improvement 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.
EqualityHistoryProgressSocial JusticeStruggle The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
MemoryPreventionReligionSufferingSuperstition The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
AwarenessChangeConservatismPerceptionProgress Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
DutyPersonal GrowthResponsibilitySelf-DevelopmentSelf-Improvement Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
EducationKnowledgeLearningObstaclesVision To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
DeterminationEmpowermentFreedomResponsibilityRights The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
Gender EqualityHistorical PerspectivesReligion and SocietySocial ChangeWomen S Rights The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Family DynamicsGender RolesSacrificeSocietal ExpectationsWomen's Roles The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
DevelopmentEducationEmpowermentGender EqualityPersonal Responsibility The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
CitizenshipIndignationInjusticeRebellionSocial Critique To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
CriticismGender RolesHistoryMoralityReligion 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.