Original: «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».
Fuente: Citado en Silver-Isenstadt, Jean L. Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols. Edición ilustrada. Editorial JHU Press, 2002. ISBN 9780801868481. p. 245.
Fuente: Carta a Susan B. Anthony, 14 de junio de 1860.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton J.: Frases de hombres
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Original: «We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal».
Fuente: Primera Convención sobre los Derechos de la Mujer, Seneca Falls, Nueva York, [19-20 de julio de 1848]. Declaración de Sentimientos.
Original: «The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man».
Fuente: History of woman suffrage, Volumen 1. Autores Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper Editor Susan B. Anthony, 1889. p. 681.
Fuente: Discurso ante la Legislatura de Nueva York, 18 de febrero de 1860.