Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth cady stanton, elizabeth, cady, stanton, house and/or falls:
“The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of the compass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor’s son to marry.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“A house in the country is not the same as a country house.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)