Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• 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

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Past, Men, Long

• 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

  Kings, Home, Men

• Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Law, Authority

  Resolutions, First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 19 - 20 July 1848

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