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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Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,—the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,—the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), U.S. suffragist, author, and social reformer. Eighty Years and More (1815-1897), ch. 6 (1898).

Recalling the shock of many women at her and other suffragists' "immodesty" in speaking from public platforms and inviting negative publicity.

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