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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When they are born, baby girls and baby boys think they are no different. They think they are just the same. If you were to place two toddlers, one boy and one girl on a playground, they wouldn’t stop and say it is wrong. They would just play. However as children age, society tells them that males are in fact, better than females, leaving women with less rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a women’s rights social activist, and a leading figure of the early women’s rights movement. Her childhood and many accomplishments helped her become a strong, independent woman, making a huge impact on the world.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12th, 1815 in the city of Johnston, to a very wealthy and politically important family. Stanton’s father was a lawyer and politician while her mother was a descendant of early Dutch settlers and the daughter of Colonel James, one of the leading officers in the Continental Army. She was the eighth of eleven children although five of her siblings died during their young childhood and infancy. The sixth child in her family, Eleazar died shortly before graduating from Union College, leaving the family with only four daughters. Stanton tried to comfort her father, telling him that she could be just as helpful as her brother. Her father would however only reply, “Oh daughter, how I wish you were a boy!” The experience made Stanton determined to prove to people that she could be equal to any male.
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