The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Stanton’s line crystallizes a central critique of 19th‑century gender ideology: society praises women chiefly in relational roles—wifehood and motherhood—while discounting women as autonomous persons with independent rights, ambitions, and identities. The word “uniformly” suggests this is not an occasional injustice but a systemic pattern embedded in law, custom, religion, and education. The “sacrifice” is double-edged: women are expected to surrender self-development for family duty, and the culture then treats that surrender as natural or virtuous. In Stanton’s broader feminist argument, genuine equality requires recognizing women’s personhood first, so that marriage and motherhood become chosen relationships rather than compulsory destinies.