Caroline’s Reviews > The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880 > Status Update

[advising girls on how to be healthy, starting with a quote from an ad] ‘ “the Magnolia [balm] will make a lady of thirty look like a girl of sixteen.” Now what sensible woman of thirty, with all the marks of intelligence and cultivation that well spent years must give, would desire to look like an inexperienced girl of sixteen?’

‘That national supremacy that holds individual freedom and equality more sacred than State rights, and secures representation to all classes of people, is a very different form of centralization from that in which all the forces of society are centered in a single arm’ [ECS in National Protection for National Citizens’ testimony Jan 1878 before Congress]

‘There is nothing a foreigner coming here finds it so difficult to understand as the wheel within a wheel in our national and state governments, and the possibility of carrying them on without friction; and this is the difficulty and danger we are fast finding out.’ (Testimony before Congress on the proposed 16th amendment) plus ça change…