Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Character, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.241, UPNE

• Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Character, Self, Add

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Character, Responsibility, Self

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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