The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady StantonBut the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.
Elizabeth Cady StantonThe 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 StantonAll through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton