About me:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902) , a life long friend of Susan B. Anthony, was an American feminist and social reformer and one of the leaders of the 19th century American women's rights morvement, often credited with initiating the organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an active abolitionists along with her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin Gerrit Smith before she settled on women's issues as her primary focus. Unlike many women of her era, Stanton was formally educated. She attended Johnstown Academy, where she studied Latin, Greek and mathematics until the age of 16. At the Academy, she enjoyed being in co-ed classes where she could compete intellectually and academically with boys her age and older. She did this very successfully, winning several academic awards and honors while a student in Johnstown. Elizabeth continued her education and enrolled in the Troy Siminary in Troy New York. Early during her student days in Troy, Stanton remembers being strongly influenced by Charles Finney, an evangelical preacher and revivalist. It seems his influence, combined with the Calvinistic Presbyterianism of her childhood, caused her great stress. After hearing Finney speak, Stanton became terrified of her own possible damnation: "Fear of judgment seized my soul. Visions of the lost haunted my dreams. Mental anguish prostrated my health. Dethronement of my reason was apprehended by my friends. Stanton credits her father and brother-in-law, Edward Bayard, with removing her from the situation and, after taking her on a rejuvenating trip to Niagara Falls, finally restoring her reason and sense of balance. She was never again to return to organized Christianity and, after this experience, always maintained that logic and a humane sense of ethics were the best guides to both thought and behavior.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Isaac Asimov,
Ayn Rand,
Carl Sagan,
Sigmund Freud,
George Carlin,
Charles Darwin,
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Albert Einstein,
Richard Dawkins,
Penn Jillette,
Woody Allen,
Sam Harris
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