Quotation by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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as quoted in "Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage by Mary Putnam Jacobi (1894)as quoted in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings by Miriam Schnier (1972)As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage by Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and herself (1882)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage by herself, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1881)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2 by Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and herself (1882)

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I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), U.S. suffragist, author, and social reformer. Eighty Years and More (1815-1897), ch. 18 (1898).

Replying to a man at an 1872 constitutional convention in Lincoln, Nebraska. He had said, "My wife has presented me with eight beautiful children; is this not a better life-work than that of exercising the right of suffrage?"

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