Quote 11
I'm in Boston this week doing research at the women's history archives at Harvard. So I decided to make my next group of 10 quotes from early feminists. I'm going to start with one of my favorite women Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She hit the nail on the head when she wrote:
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There haven't been very many times in my life that I've been told I couldn't do something ONLY because of my sex. But the few times it has happened left me when I was younger sad and when I was older outraged. I can easily imagine the indignation that the women who met for the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 must of felt knowing that just because they were women most colleges & professions were closed to them, that if they married they lost control over all their property and wages to their husbands, and that like children they were not considered 'independent' enough to have a say in political affairs. I'm absurdly glad that women's like Stanton took it upon themselves to demand better and fairer treatment for women.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There haven't been very many times in my life that I've been told I couldn't do something ONLY because of my sex. But the few times it has happened left me when I was younger sad and when I was older outraged. I can easily imagine the indignation that the women who met for the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 must of felt knowing that just because they were women most colleges & professions were closed to them, that if they married they lost control over all their property and wages to their husbands, and that like children they were not considered 'independent' enough to have a say in political affairs. I'm absurdly glad that women's like Stanton took it upon themselves to demand better and fairer treatment for women.