Editing Elizabeth Cady Stanton (section)

===Partnership with Susan B. Anthony===
While visiting Seneca Falls in 1851, [[Susan B. Anthony]] was introduced to Stanton by [[Amelia Bloomer]], a mutual friend and a supporter of women's rights. Anthony, who was five years younger than Stanton, came from a Quaker family that was active in reform movements. Anthony and Stanton soon became close friends and co-workers, forming a relationship that was a turning point in their lives and of great importance to the women's movement.<ref>Ginzberg, p. 77</ref>

The two women had complementary skills. Anthony excelled at organizing, while Stanton had an aptitude for intellectual matters and writing. Stanton later said, "In writing we did better work together than either could alone. While she is slow and analytical in composition, I am rapid and synthetic. I am the better writer, she the better critic."<ref>Quoted in McMillen, pp. 109–110</ref> Anthony deferred to Stanton in many ways throughout their years of work together, not accepting an office in any organization that would place her above Stanton.<ref>Barry, p. 297</ref> In their letters, they referred to one another as "Susan" and "Mrs. Stanton."<ref>Barry, p. 63</ref>

 [[File:Susan B Anthony c1855.png|left|thumb|Susan B. Anthony]]
Because Stanton was homebound with seven children while Anthony was unmarried and free to travel, Anthony assisted Stanton by supervising her children while Stanton wrote.
Among other things, this allowed Stanton to write speeches for Anthony to give.<ref name=Griffith-74>Griffith, [https://archive.org/details/inherownright00elis/page/74 p. 74]</ref>
One of Anthony's biographers said, "Susan became one of the family and was almost another mother to Mrs. Stanton's children."<ref>Barry, p. 64</ref> One of Stanton's biographers said, "Stanton provided the ideas, rhetoric, and strategy; Anthony delivered the speeches, circulated petitions, and rented the halls. Anthony prodded and Stanton produced."<ref name=Griffith-74/> Stanton's husband said, "Susan stirred the puddings, Elizabeth stirred up Susan, and then Susan stirs up the world!"<ref name=Griffith-74/> Stanton herself said, "I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them."<ref>Stanton, ''Eighty Years and More'',  [https://archive.org/details/eightyyearsandm00stangoog/page/n190 p. 165].</ref>
By 1854, Anthony and Stanton "had perfected a collaboration that made the New York State movement the most sophisticated in the country," according to [[Ann D. Gordon]], a professor of women's history.<ref>Gordon, Vol 1, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dBs4CO1DsF4C&pg=PR30 p. xxx]</ref>

After the Stantons moved from Seneca Falls to New York City in 1861, a room was set aside for Anthony in every house they lived in. One of Stanton's biographers estimated that, over her lifetime, Stanton spent more time with Anthony than with any other adult, including her own husband.<ref>Griffith, [https://archive.org/details/inherownright00elis/page/224 pp. 108, 224]</ref>

In December 1865, Stanton and Anthony submitted the first women's suffrage petition directed to Congress during the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment.<ref name=":0" /> The women challenged the use of the word "male" in the version submitted to the States for ratification.<ref name=":0" /> When Congress failed to remove the language, Stanton announced her candidacy as the first woman to run for Congress in October 1866.<ref name=":0" /> She ran as an independent and secured only 24 votes, but her candidacy sparked conversations surrounding women's officeholding separate from suffrage.<ref name=":0" />

In December 1872, Stanton and Anthony each wrote [[New Departure (United States)|New Departure]] memorials to Congress and were invited to read their memorials to the Senate Judiciary Committee.<ref name=":0" /> This further brought women's suffrage and officeholding to the forefront of Congress's agenda, even though the New Departure agenda was ultimately rejected.<ref name=":0" />

The relationship was not without its strains, especially as Anthony could not match Stanton's charm and charisma. In 1871, Anthony said, "whoever goes into a parlor or before an audience with that woman does it at the cost of a fearful overshadowing, a price which I have paid for the last ten years, and that cheerfully, because I felt that our cause was most profited by her being seen and heard, and my best work was making the way clear for her."<ref>Harper, Vol 1,
 [https://archive.org/stream/lifeandworksusa00unkngoog#page/n465/mode/2up p. 396]</ref>