The Boston Herald, November 7th, 1999
Hours after her brother died, Elizabeth Cady Stanton sat by his coffin with her father, a prominent judge, and endured this lament, "I wish you were a boy."
Through her teen years Elizabeth argued with her father the then-radical notion of getting educated. Too much school, he feared, could discourage suitors or even catapult Elizabeth from the "cult of true womanhood" and its "morality, purity and ethics."
Susan B. Anthony, meanwhile, had two equally bleak views of the married state: Marry a poor man and become his "drudge." Or marry a rich man and become his "pet" or "doll."
"I never fe...
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