US social reformer, suffragist.
She was a social reformer and champion for women's rights; co-founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1869.
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
The only question left to be settled now is: are women persons?
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
[S]o long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a reform.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
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In "Elizabeth Cady Stanton," Vol. II, ed. by T. Stanton and H. S. Blatch, 1922.
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In "History of Woman Suffrage," Vol. 1, ed. by E. C. Stanton and M. Gage, 1881.
