[Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton]@TWC D-Link bookEighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 CHAPTER X 20/24
Her description of a body of men on any platform, complacently deciding questions in which woman had an equal interest, without an equal voice, readily roused me to a determination to throw a firebrand into the midst of their assembly. Thus, whenever I saw that stately Quaker girl coming across my lawn, I knew that some happy convocation of the sons of Adam was to be set by the ears, by one of our appeals or resolutions.
The little portmanteau, stuffed with facts, was opened, and there we had what the Rev.John Smith and Hon.
Richard Roe had said: false interpretations of Bible texts, the statistics of women robbed of their property, shut out of some college, half paid for their work, the reports of some disgraceful trial; injustice enough to turn any woman's thoughts from stockings and puddings.
Then we would get out our pens and write articles for papers, or a petition to the legislature; indite letters to the faithful, here and there; stir up the women in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts; call on _The Lily, The Una, The Liberator, The Standard_ to remember our wrongs as well as those of the slave.
We never met without issuing a pronunciamento on some question.
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