To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement Stanton addressed various issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12 1815 – October 26 1902) was an American social activist abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.