... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.
Elizabeth Cady StantonYou may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.
Elizabeth Cady StantonWomanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Elizabeth Cady StantonI know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton