Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Abortion, Pro Life

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library, October 16, 1873.

• Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Years, Abuse, Atheism

• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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