Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Seneca Falls speech (1848)
""But you are already represented by your fathers, husbands, brothers and sons?" Let your statute books answer the question. We have had enough of such representation. In nothing is woman's true happiness consulted. Men like to call her an angel—to feed her on what they think sweet food—nourishing her vanity; to make her believe that her organization is so much finer than theirs, that she is not fitted to struggle with the tempests of public life, but needs their care and protection!! Care and protection—such as the wolf gives the lamb—such as the eagle the hare he carries to his eyrie!! Most cunningly he entraps her, and then takes from her all those rights which are dearer to him than life itself—rights which have been baptized in blood—and the maintenance of which is even now rocking to their foundations the kingdoms of the Old World. "
Stanton gave a speech, a part excerpted here, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
A part of the speech exerted above is about how women's minds are fed to men, and how women need care and protection to survive. Women rely so much on men. Stanton even gave a comparison as a wolf protecting a lamb, and later on women's rights are taken away because of their weakness in doing everything themselves. Stanton is trying to let listeners know women can be stronger minded and smarter than that, and to be independent from men.