Our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences (ed. 1922)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a...

Our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a...

Our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a...

Our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a...