Born on November 12, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the eighth of eleven children, born to a well-respected lawyer, judge, and congressman. As an intelligent, smart child, Stanton observed what occurred at her father’s office, and was disturbed when she learned about the unequal rights that restricted women's freedom. Defending herself as a young girl, she cut the offending passages out of her father’s law books in the hope of making them disappear. Her dad later disapproved her activism, but he initially encouraged his daughter, he loaned her law books and explained that laws could be overturned by public appeals to the government. Without knowing he did so, Elizabeth’s dad gave her the main objective in her life, to try and overturn …show more content…
Stanton’s idea of truth is that “Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Quote on 2016). This shows that she believes that in order to be a morally correct person, that the only thing that you can do is to stand with and live with the truth. This shows one of Stanton’s main characteristics that made her unique, in that she will not stand with lying, only telling the truth. Elizabeth really was passionate about the status of women and made it known that they should have a say in society, as shown when she says, “Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Quote on the, 2016). This quote proves how she took a stand on women’s rights and was passionate because she said that if women were not high in the society that directly reflected on the civilization itself. She decided to run for Congress, but she didn’t win, this is one of her failures. This relates back to her quote on the status of women because it is the society that wasn’t letting her be in government because they didn’t vote for her to be in the position in Congress and run in government. She played a major role in the shaping of America, specifically in the section of women’s rights and the ideas toward and behind