Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth cady, elizabeth, cady, stanton and/or house:
“Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:41,42.
“It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognised, and robed as destinies,
And that much never can be obsolete,”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)