Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I was once called the most dangerous woman in America because I dared to
ask for the unthinkable- the right to vote. I challenged my culture's basic
assumptions about men and women, and dedicated my life to the pursuit of equal
rights for all women. My name is .
I was born in Johnstown, New York, on the 12th of November, 1815. My
father is the prominent attorney and judge Daniel Cady and my mother is Margaret
Livingston Cady. I was born the seventh child and middle daughter. Although my
mother gave birth to eleven children- five boys and six girls- six of her
children died. Only one of my brothers survived to adulthood, and he died
unexpectedly when he was twenty. At ten years old, ...
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as Latin, Greek, mathematics, and philosophy. I
devoured the books in my father's extensive law library and debated the fine
points of the law with his clerks. It was while reading my father's law books
that I first discovered the cruelty of the laws regarding women, and I resolved
to get scissors and snip out every unfair law. But my father stopped me,
explaining that only the legislature could change or remove them. This was the
key moment in my career as a women's rights reformer.
As I grew older, my intellectual interests and masculine activities
embarrassed my father. He told me they were inappropriate in a young lady,
especially the daughter of a prominent man. I was educated at the Johnstown
Academy until I was 15, and was always the head of my class, even in the higher
levels of mathematics and language, where I was the only girl. But when I
graduated, and wanted to attend Union College- as my brother had done- my father
would not allow it. It was unseemly, he ...
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Convention. It was in London that I met Lucretia Mott, when both of us
were banished from the convention because of our gender. We resolved the keep
in touch when we returned to America, but eight years passed before this
happened.
Meanwhile, after Henry and I returned to the United States, Henry gave
up the lecture circuit and studied law with my father to support our growing
family. I had given birth to three sons in four years, and bore seven children
in all, five sons and two daughters. This colored everything that I did, for I
was either pregnant or nursing or both during the formative years of the women's
movement. One result was that I learned to use my pen instead of ...
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