It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

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.