“Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?”
“Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“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?”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“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.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.”
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