Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences. Edited by Theodore Stanton and Harriot Stanton Blatch, Vol. 2, Harper & Brothers, 1922.
Many of the most liberated and accomplished women in history have been from wealthy families. And yet with all their money they could only go so far. They needed an entire movement of women of all classes—and men to finally attain suffrage and the progress made thus far. Wealthy women were very active, alongside with working and middle class women in most of the demonstrations and campaigns for women’s rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.
