"I do not believe woman's utter dependence on man wins for her his respect; it may cause him to love and pet her as a child, but never to regard and treat her as a peer."
~Susan B. Anthony
~Susan B. Anthony
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At the time of the Convention, women held a lesser status than men and lacked many basic rights. The women's rights movement compelled society to shift its perception of women, and women's rights gradually improved. |
"... do not tell us before we are born even, that our province is to cook dinners, darn stockings, and sew on buttons."
~Lucy Stone, 1855
~Lucy Stone, 1855