Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An Avid Feminist

I wanted women to count as much as men do; we are equal. Those are words I preached to people very often, because that is what I spent my life doing- fighting for women's rights. I grew up thinking that females were subordinate to males and my parents even told me they wished I were a boy; I know differently now. We should be able to do the following things: vote, speak in public, and live our lives without men "owning" us. I traveled to many conventions persuading them to believe what I do. My three attempts of equalizing women's rights, "freeing the women," were a convention at Seneca Falls, fighting with the legislature for our right to vote,

and writing my own edition of the Women's Bible.

I wrote a woman's Bible that mainly consisted of social reforms relating to the concerns of women- instead of suffrage; Matilda Gage helped me. I used the religion's authority to write this bible; I also wanted to make women think and make a point of equality. I wanted women to think, because I had little tolerance for those women who found satisfaction in doing what men say and not having rights of our own.

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