Bridgett

Elizabeth Cady Stanton I ’m Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You can call me Lizzie. I was born on November 12, 1815 at Johnstown, New York. Johnstown was a very gloomy looking place. There were lots of poplar trees. I hated the poplar trees, not bending, stiff with pride and in the spring and I hated it when they let loose of thousands of dangling inch worms. The inchworms dropped on people in the spring. If you were there when I was a kid you would see my sisters’ and my hands on our heads trying to dodge the poplar trees. My sisters are Harriet (who’s 5 years older than me), and Margret (who’s 3 years younger than me.) We would dress alike in red dresses, black aprons, red stockings, red mittens, red coats and red hoods. Even though I didn’t like red I still wore them. The red dress had ruffles on it which made my neck hurt. When I put my finger around the collar my mom yelled at me because she wanted me to be lady-like. Only guys can put their fingers between their neck and their collar. Off their ties, and throw them on the ground. What my mom loved, I hated. We are nothing alike. We always did something different. Then we all moved out of the house. No one could stand up to her because she was six feet tall, so we were all scared of her. Flora Campbell bought our farm from us. When Flora Campbell’s husband left her, I got mad. Her husband took everything from Flora because the men had all of the rights to their wife and kids. Flora had **__ nothing __** when he left her. Like I usually say all men and women are created equally. So I thought it is not fair that he could take it all then leave her with nothing. Susan b. Anthony and I worked together for women’s rights to vote after 1851. I was the one who wrote and Susan is the one who planned. We were both among people who focused on female suffrage rights. I ended up being president of the suffrage club at the end when we finished protesting. I had very many quotes like: we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. (From "[|Solitude of Self]")Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. (From "[|Solitude of Self] ") Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own. A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions. It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecraft’s, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other. Men say we are ever cruel to each other. Let us end this ignoble record and henceforth stand by womanhood. If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes and plait the crown of thorns. So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves. To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression. I thought that I was great at writing books and I wrote 3 more books called __The Women’s Bible, Eighty Years Also More__ and __History of Women Suffrage.__ I got married and I moved in with my husband. Together we had seven kids. Soon they all grew up and moved out. I died on October 26, 1902. I died because of heart failure. Other people think I did by old age. A park was named after me a couple years after I died. By: Bridgett Shamblen