Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a very strong woman. She was smart and believed in fairness! Lizzie was very well educated and is now known as one of the most significant authors and philosophers that contributed to the history of women’s rights. 

Elizabeth believed that women should be able to own property in marriage and that slavery should end. 

She believed we deserved marriage property rights. She is right!

She believed we deserved freedom and the right to vote. She is right!

She was married with children and a husband. Her husband, Henry Stanton, was an abolitionist who also believed in the end of slavery. 

But… She was unhappy at this time. Lizzie was always told by everyone that women could not do important things like going to school or working. 

Don’t be so absurd Lizzie! Haha!

She and many others saw that women were unable to vote, publicly speak their opinions, or make their own decisions. Women could not have important jobs like lawyers or doctors, and no matter how hard they worked, they could not keep their own property or money. 

If they got married, women could not even own their own clothing! It all went to their husbands.

Women were expected to stay at home and take care of the house and their children. This idea was called the Cult of Domesticity.

Lizzie wanted all women to be able to attend college and get proper education. 

Luckily, Elizabeth refused to believe what the world told her. She knew women deserved the same rights as men.

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Soon, Lizzie gathered her friends who believed in her cause! She gathered friends like Lucretia Mott, a fellow woman who also shared beliefs about equal rights.  

They planned to host the first public convention all about Women’s Rights in the United States in New York.

They began to write the Declaration of Sentiments, a special paper that said men and women should be treated equally and have the same rights, including women’s rights to vote.