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Eighty Years and More Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Context & Meanings

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Autobiography / reform memoir

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Individual sovereignty, conscience, education, women’s rights, family law, public reform and the development of independent judgment.

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The individual was primary; the State, the Church, society, the family, secondary.
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“The individual was primary; the State, the Church, society, the family, secondary.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The hierarchy places inherent personhood before social institutions, arguing that family, church, society, and government should serve rather than erase individual conscience and dignity.

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Eighty Years and More (1898), Chapter XIV, “Views on Marriage and Divorce,” Project Gutenberg #11982. This sentence immediately follows Stanton’s individual-sovereignty claim inside her quoted April 1894 Arena article: she contrasts older state/family primacy with the Christian claim of individual conscience and judgment. The passage is historical reform argument, not modern constitutional or family-law doctrine.

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The true standpoint from which to view this question is individual sovereignty, individual happiness.
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“The true standpoint from which to view this question is individual sovereignty, individual happiness.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Stanton makes the individual rather than an institution the starting point for judging intimate social arrangements, linking personal sovereignty with the pursuit of happiness.

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Eighty Years and More (1898), Chapter XIV, “Views on Marriage and Divorce,” Project Gutenberg #11982. Stanton introduces the surrounding passage as “my latest thought on this question” from The Arena of April 1894, then argues that marriage and divorce should be judged from individual sovereignty and individual happiness. The 1898 memoir remains the represented source while the embedded 1894 article origin is preserved.

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