After devoting their time to the war, it only seemed devastating, and degrading that women be denied the right to vote again. I think Elizabeth was correct in believing that women could not attain complete equality until the right to vote was passed. The privilege to choose one’s own leader guarantees certain rights and freedoms. The Woman’s Bible is the culmination of what she thought to be unjust. To be honest, I love it, and find the fact that she went as far to criticize what society found so sacred intrigues me. I would have to agree with what Elizabeth and her friends was trying to change. I believe today the Bible still is in fact misinterpreted to the women’s disadvantage, and Elizabeth and her colleagues just started people to think about it. Although, I believe such a reform is yet to come.

As you see Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an influential leader in the woman’s rights movement. She was considered taboo in her time for what she did, and said, however many of the great people we think of today were. Elizabeth never lived to see what she worked so hard for accomplished: when American women finally won their cherished right to vote, although the legislation was passed in 1920, or many of the other goals she set attained. However, woman today have all that the feminists in the nineteenth century could have ever asked for, this was solely achieved because of the efforts of these woman and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Women of that time wrote millions of word, traveled thousands of miles, shed oceans of tear, and poured their fortunes and lifetimes into the suffrage movement. That only leaves me to ponder… What might dedicated women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton have accomplished for the world if they had not been forced to spend their energy on winning a right that should have been theirs in the first place?

In 1854, Elizabeth took on the awesome task of addressing state legislators on the legal status of women. Elizabeth gave a moving outlook of feminine ability as she spoke in the Senate chamber. She demanded justice for woman, claiming they were as worthy as “the proud white man himself, and yet by your laws we are classes with idiots, lunatics, and Negroes…”More over, she pointed out, a woman ranked even lower than these other legal pariahs, for a black man could buy his freedom, the lunatic could vote when sane “and the idiot, too, of he be a male one, and not more than nine-tenths a fool… (Oakley 60)” Although, despite such overwhelming logic, the legislators were unmoved. However, her hard work paid off when legislation was passed giving women right’s over their own property, wages, and children.

The Feminist movement was stopped by the civil war as woman devoted their time to the “great conflict.” After the war, with slavery at an end, it seemed like the perfect time to honor both Negroes and women with the right to vote. However, the women were told that it was “the Negroes hour (Banner 97).” Elizabeth couldn’t believe that not only were women being sacrificed again, but the vote was being given to yet more men, hence the fourteenth a

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