Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Gender relations Men and women Oppression of women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Letter

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Women's rights activist Writer Activist

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United States

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Susan B. Anthony. 14 June 1860.

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Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.

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Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Considerations by the Way

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Considerations by the Way." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Considerations by the Way." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.