Quote

There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may not shine, and it is the same with every woman, and the same woman may have a different sphere at different times.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
Abolitionist
Activist
Feminist
Suffragist
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Men
Shining
Sex
Times
Woman
May
Sexism
Different
Sphere
Thing
Spheres
Every
Shine

More quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Image
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
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
Image
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect of credit in the market place of recompense in the world of work of a voice among those who make and administer the law a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Image
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton