Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An avid Feminist

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 …

…edition of the Women’s Bible. I did not live to see all these things actually take place; women were not able to vote when I passed away. My sight and health began to fail so I chose my life to be more fleeting, because my usefulness ended. This way I had the same control over my death that I had over my life; I asked my doctor to give me an overdose of drugs.