“We shall not be in our prime before fifty.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1857
“We shall not be in our prime before fifty, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at least,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton told Susan B. Anthony in 1857. She was 41...
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New York gave women the right to vote on November 6, 1917.
Many of the earliest prominent suffragists were New Yorkers: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, to name a few. However their efforts were most often rewarded...
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1880. Happy International #DayOfTheGirl
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else, but independent, responsible workers in carrying forward the grand eternal plans in the redemption of...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848
In the Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton expanded the vision of the founding fathers, declaring that all men and...
April Young Bennett tells stories about some of the suffragists who have inspired her on BITE Radio: Bringing Inspiration to Earth
April Young Bennett shared stories about some of the suffragists who have inspired her most with Robert Sharpe on BITE Radio. Listen to the complete episode to learn more about Maria W. Stewart, Frances...
Ask a Suffragist is now available as an audiobook (just as Elizabeth Cady Stanton would have wanted).
“While I am about the house, surrounded by my children, washing dishes, baking, sewing, I can think up many points but I cannot search books, for my hands, as well as my brains, would...
The #MeToo Generation Can Glean Sage Guidance, Strategies, Strength & Sisterhood from the Women Who Set the Stage for Them
For Every Girl, Woman or Female Activist, The most striking message woven into the fabric of April Young Bennett’s extraordinary and intimate look at the women who first stood for women’s rights is the...
The Myth of Seneca Falls
If women’s history is covered at all in our androcentric courses at school, it tends to occupy only a few paragraphs, maybe one chapter, of our textbooks. With most of the story omitted, how...
Birthdays of America’s First Suffragists
It has been nearly 100 years since the Nineteenth Amendment gave (most) American women the right to vote and it took about a hundred years of activism to win that right. The first...
Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists
The first book in the Ask a Suffragist series, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, informs modern-day activists with lessons learned from some of the first American suffragists and feminists. Where can I buy...
