Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a prominent American writer, social activist, and leading figure in the women's rights movement. She co-authored "The Declaration of Sentiments" in 1848, which called for gender equality and was presented at the Seneca Falls Convention. Stanton also co-wrote "The Woman's Bible," a critical examination of the Bible's treatment of women, and worked closely with Susan B. Anthony to advance women's suffrage. Her book "Eighty Years and More" is an autobiography that recounts her lifelong fight for women's rights.

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INTRODUCTION. From the inauguration of the movement for woman's emancipation the Bible has been used to hold her in the "divinely ordained sphere," prescribed in the Old and New Testaments. The canon and civil law; church and state; priests and legislators; all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior... more...

CHAPTER I. The psychical growth of a child is not influenced by days and years, but by the impressions passing events make on its mind. What may prove a sudden awakening to one, giving an impulse in a certain direction that may last for years, may make no impression on another. People wonder why the children of the same family differ so widely, though they have had the same domestic discipline, the... more...