"Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women's self development is self-sacrifice."

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About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social reformer and central leader in the 19th-century women's rights movement. She helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and coauthored the Declaration of Sentiments.

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