Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Solitude of Self

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No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton