Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes about Motherhood

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

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”

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”

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