62 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton: 'The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.', 'Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman ...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton served for twenty years as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and as the first president of NAWSA. In 1892, she resigned at age 77. Her resignation speech, “The Solitude of Self,” eloquently articulated the arguments for the equality of women that she had spent her adult life promoting.

The Woman's Bible is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. By producing the book, Stanton wished to promote a radical liberating theology, one that stressed self-development.

Oct 14, 2009 · Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in a part of upstate New York that would become known as the “Burnt District” or the “Burned-Over District” because it was home to so many ...

Principal author and first women's conference organizer was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with high-profile support from abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Many more struggles and attempts to change public opinion followed the conference; it took 72 more years for women to secure the right to vote. Feminism, and the literature which gives it voice ...

The dissatisfaction of the operatives subsided, or burned itself out, and though the authorities did not accede to their demands, the majority returned to their work, and the corporation went on cutting down the wages. And after a time, as the wages became more and more reduced, the best portion of the girls left and went to their homes, or to ...

Mar 08, 2022 · “The best protection any woman can have is courage.” –Elizabeth Cady Stanton “Where there is a woman, there is magic.” –Ntozake Shange “You were given this life because you are ...

Nov 10, 2017 · Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading women’s rights advocate who was a driving organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention. Stanton first became invested in women’s rights after talking to her ...

Though she didn’t literally take up arms, no one can deny that, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others, she fought the good fight for woman suffrage and helped pave the way for the passage—14 years after her death in 1906—of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which extended the right to vote to women.