Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Garden Metaphor on the Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association
"Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy."
May 15, 1869
On this day, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York.
As part of her rhetoric to fight for the right to vote, Elizabeth Cady Staton used the metaphor of the original garden when she said,
"Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy."
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