The Most Influential Woman of the Past Millenium: Elizabeth Cady Stanto

The Most Influential Woman of the Past Millenium Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Rosa set Elizabeth Cady StantonIf there had never been born an Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women may have never seen the rights and privileges allow to us in the Nineteenth Amendment. She was the leading fighter and driving eviscerate for womens rights she dedicated her whole life to the struggle for equality. Elizabeth had learned from her father at an early age how to debate and win court cases, and she had also go through the discriminations against women first hand. These two qualities lead to the most(prenominal) influential and motivating speeches against disparity when she was older. Elizabeth vowed to herself that she would change how women were viewed in society (Hildgard 2) and that, she didDue to her strong belief in equality, she had the word obey removed from her wedding vow before she would get married Henry Brewster Stanton, an abolitionist, who loved her haughty nature and strong will (Raven 85). date partaking in their honeymoon, they attended the Worlds First Anti-slavery Convention in London, Stanton and Lucretia Mott were failed to be find as legitimate delegates(Read 417). The normals sexual barrier humiliated and angered Stanton she promised to disunite a womens convention to battle the issue of equality. A cause that she faught against for most of her lifetime. Eight years later, Stanton, along with four other women, held the first womens convention at Seneca Falls. Here hundreds of women met to discuss the fact that they had been denied their natural rights and religious freedom. The women use the Declaration of Independence to write the Declaration of Sentiments, which included the womens bil... ...king Press, 1972.Hildgard. Distinguished Women, handle of Activtity. Distinguished Women.28 January 2000 .James, Edward T., et al ed. Notable Women. Volume I. Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press.Martin, Linda, et al., eds. ground s Makers of the Millenium. virgin York DK Publishing, 1999.Raven, Susan, and Alison Weir. Women of Achievement. New York Harmony Books, 1981.Read, Phyllis J., and Bernard L. Witlieb. The Book of Womens Firsts. New York Random House, 1992.Saari, Peggy, ed. freehanded Women of the 20th Century. Volume 4. New York International Thompson Publishing Company, 1996.Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. Eleanor of Acquitaine. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.The National Womens Hall of Fame. Internet. 19 January 2000 .