"I am moved to recall what I can of my early days, what I thought and felt, that grown people may have a better understanding of children and do more for their happiness and development. I see so much tyranny exercised over children, even by well-disposed parents, and in so many varied forms, —a tyranny to which these parents are themselves insensible, —that I desire to paint my joys and sorrows in as vivid colors as possible, in the hope that I may do something to defend the weak from the strong...."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.

Contents:
Childhood
School Days
Girlhood
Life at Peterboro
Our Wedding Journey
Homeward Bound
Motherhood
Boston and Chelsea
The First Woman's Rights Convention
Susan B. Anthony
My First Speech Before a Legislature
Reforms and Mobs
Views on Marriage and Divorce
Women as Patriots
Pioneer Life in Kansas—Our Newspaper, "The Revolution"
Lyceums and Lecturers
Westward Ho!
The Spirit of '76
Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage"
In the South of France
Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain
Woman and Theology
England and France Revisited
The International Council of Women
My Last Visit to England
Sixtieth Anniversary of the Class of 1832—The Woman's Bible
My Eightieth Birthday