Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Motherhood

Quotes about: Motherhood

• Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Beauty, Mother, Peace

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887). “History of Woman Suffrage”

• Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Office, Preparation

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.78, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Motherhood, Men

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

• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Facts, Relation

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

• I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Men, Eight

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.172, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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