WOMEN’S
RIGHTS
See also: Suffragettes; Votes for women
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent, that I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrestled from woman.
Lucretia Mott
What we suffragettes aspire to be when we are enfranchised is ambassadors of freedom to women in other parts of the world, who are not so free as we are.
Christabel Pankhurst
We are not ashamed of what we have done, because, when you have a great cause to fight for, the moment of greatest humiliation is the moment when the spirit is proudest. The women we do pity, the women we think unwomanly, the women for whom we have almost contempt, if our hearts could let us have that feeling, are the women who can stand aside, who take no part in this battle – and perhaps even more, the women who know what the right path is and will not tread it, who are selling the liberty of other women in order to win the smiles and favor of the dominant sex.
Christabel Pankhurst
Better to die than to live in slavery.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Our trouble is not our womanhood, but the artificial trammels of custom under false conditions. 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 ever can possess. When women can support themselves, have their entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
But when at last woman stands on an even platform with man, his acknowledged equal everywhere, with the same freedom to express herself in the religion and government of the country, then, and not until then will he be able to legislate as wisely and generously for her as for himself.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
By standing alone we learned our power; we repudiated man’s counsels forevermore; and solemnly vowed that there should never be another season of silence until we had the same rights everywhere on this green earth, as man.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton