A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
Elizabeth Cady StantonWhatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
Elizabeth Cady StantonThey who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton