“I dedicate this volume to Susan B. Anthony, my steadfast friend for half a century.”
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. 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 v…
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entertainment · American suffragist (1815–1902) · writer · actor · women's rights activist · abolitionist · also Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Stanton
Born 12 November 1815 · Died 26 October 1902 · Q465335
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2026· 10 entries
“has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God.”
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“s talk of damnation, but, after overcoming those fears with the help of her father and brother-in-law, had rejected that type of religion entirely. As an adult, her religious views continued to evolve. While living in Boston in the 1840s, she was attracted to the preaching of Theodore Parker, who, like her cousin Gerritt Smith, was a member of the Secret Six, a group of men who financed John Brown”
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“no matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone.”
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“American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood to make laws for you and your daughters ... demand that women too shall be represented in government.”
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“Stanton provided the ideas, rhetoric, and strategy; Anthony delivered the speeches, circulated petitions, and rented the halls. Anthony prodded and Stanton produced.”
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“long-accumulating discontent, with such vehemence and indignation that I stirred myself, as well as the rest of the party, to do and dare anything.”
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“In writing we did better work together than either could alone. While she is slow and analytical in composition, I am rapid and synthetic. I am the better writer, she the better critic.”
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“Susan stirred the puddings, Elizabeth stirred up Susan, and then Susan stirs up the world!”
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“It becomes a serious question whether we had better stand aside and let”
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014).
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1982· 1 entry
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B
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1975· 1 entry
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Tenafly, New Jersey, was declared a National Historic Landmark
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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Stanton was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1969· 1 entry
The group New York Radical Feminists was founded
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1965· 1 entry
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Seneca Falls was declared a National Historic Landmark
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1923· 1 entry
Alice Paul, leader of the National Woman's Party, introduced the proposed Equal Rights Amendment in Seneca Falls on the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention
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1902· 6 entries
Died 1902-10-26.
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18 years before women achieved the right to vote in the United States via the Nineteenth Amendment to the U
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“While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.”
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“The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.”
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“In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.”
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“For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.”
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1898· 1 entry
Stanton published her memoirs, Eighty Years and More, in which she presented the image of herself by which she wished to be remembered
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1895· 1 entry
Stanton published The Woman's Bible, a provocative examination of the Bible that questioned its status as the word of God and attacked the way it was being used to relegate women to an inferior status
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1892· 1 entry
Stanton delivered the speech that became known as The Solitude of Self three different times in as many days, twice to Congressional committees and once as her final address to the NAWSA
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1891· 1 entry
Moved in with two of her unmarried children who shared a home in New York City
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1890· 2 entries
“I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all Union of Church and State and pledges itself … to maintain the secular nature of our government. In 1895, Stanton published The Woman”
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The two organizations merged as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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1888· 1 entry
To form the organization that Stanton and Anthony had been working toward, the International Council of Women (ICW), which is still active
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1887· 1 entry
While she was in England visiting their daughter
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1885· 1 entry
Just before his 80th birthday, he published a short autobiography called Random Recollections
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1884· 1 entry
Of her friend Frederick Douglass to Helen Pitts, a white woman, a marriage that enraged racists
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1880· 1 entry
Stanton also tried to vote
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1878· 1 entry
Stanton and Anthony convinced Senator Aaron A
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1876· 1 entry
Anthony moved into Stanton's house in New Jersey to begin working with Stanton on the History of Woman Suffrage
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1872· 1 entry
For which she was arrested and found guilty in a widely publicized trial
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1871· 2 entries
Anthony said, "whoever goes into a parlor or before an audience with that woman does it at the cost of a fearful overshadowing, a price which I have paid for the last ten years, and that cheerfully, because I felt that o
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The NWSA officially adopted what had become known as the New Departure strategy, encouraging women to attempt to vote and to file lawsuits if denied that right
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1870· 1 entry
Removing much of the original reason for the split in the women's suffrage movement
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1869· 2 entries
Francis and Virginia Minor, husband and wife suffragists from Missouri, developed a strategy based on the idea that the U
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Stanton called for a Sixteenth Amendment that would provide suffrage for women, saying, "The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish, aggrandizing, loving war, violence, conquest, acquisition … in the dethron
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1868· 3 entries
Bought a substantial country house near Tenafly, New Jersey, an hour's ride by train from New York City
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A sharp dispute erupted within the AERA over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the U
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Anthony and Stanton began publishing a sixteen-page weekly newspaper called The Revolution in New York City
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1867· 1 entry
The AERA campaigned in Kansas for referendums that would enfranchise both African Americans and women
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1866· 1 entry
Stanton declared herself a candidate for Congress, the first woman to do so
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1864· 1 entry
After it became clear that the amendment would be approved
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1863· 1 entry
Anthony moved into the Stantons' house in New York City and the two women began organizing the Women's Loyal National League to campaign for an amendment to the U
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1862· 1 entry
When her husband secured the position of deputy collector for the Port of New York
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1861· 2 entries
A room was set aside for Anthony in every house they lived in
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Anthony organized a tour of abolitionist lecturers in upstate New York that included Stanton and several other speakers
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1860· 3 entries
Stanton published a pamphlet called The Slaves Appeal written from what she imagined to be the viewpoint of a female slave
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Went further, generating a heated debate that took up an entire session
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Stanton spoke again to the Judiciary Committee, this time before a large audience in the assembly chamber, arguing that women's suffrage was the only real protection for married women, their children and their material a
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1859· 2 entries
When her father died in 1859, Stanton received an inheritance worth an estimated $50,000, or about $1,800,000 in today's dollars.
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Stanton received an inheritance worth an estimated $50,000, or about $1,800,000 in today's dollars
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1854· 2 entries
“I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them.”
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To a joint session of the Judiciary Committee, arguing that voting rights were needed to enable women to protect their newly won property rights
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1852· 2 entries
Anthony was elected as a delegate to the New York state temperance convention
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At the women's temperance convention by advocating a woman's right to divorce a drunken husband
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1851· 2 entries
Elizabeth Smith Miller, Stanton's cousin, brought a new style of dress to the upstate New York area
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The demand for women's right to vote had become a central tenet of the United States women's rights movement
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1850· 1 entry
Stanton was unable to attend because she was pregnant
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1848· 1 entry
And into the future," according to Judith Wellman, a historian of the convention
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1847· 1 entry
The Stantons moved to Seneca Falls, New York, in the Finger Lakes region
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1840· 3 entries
“I obstinately refused to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering into an equal relation.”
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Omitting the word "obey" from the marriage ceremony
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The Stantons attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
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1836· 1 entry
The New York legislature began considering a Married Women's Property Act, with women's rights advocate Ernestine Rose an early supporter who circulated petitions in its favor
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1815· 1 entry
Born 1815-11-12.
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