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Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902

Women’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton on women

Letter to Susan B. Anthony (June 14, 1860).

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