Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lived: November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902 • Co-founder and President of the National Woman Suffrage Association • Works • The Revolution (weekly paper) • The Woman’s Bible • The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1-3 • Eighty Years And More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Seneca Falls Convention • Declaration of Sentiments

2. “I am the better writer, she the better critic...and together we have made arguments that have stood unshaken by the storms of thirty long years; arguments that no man has answered.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton about herself and Susan B. Anthony

3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the leading figures in the fight for women suffrage. She not only helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association, later the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she also wrote many works about women’s rights, attempting to gain support for the cause. One of these works was The Woman’s Bible, in which she criticized the Old Testament’s treatment of women. She also helped write the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, modeled after the Declaration of Independence. This declaration did not only call for women’s right to vote but also their right to own property, higher education, divorce, and may of the other rights that men possessed. She may not have lived long enough to see all of her wishes come to fruition, but she certainly helped set women on the path to more equal rights.

4. Websites • http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/stanton/aa_stanton_subj.html • http://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-cady-stanton-9492182\ • http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/