Elizabeth Cass, later Elizabeth Langley (born 1863) was a British seamstress and dress designer whose mistaken arrest for prostitution in 1887 became a minor cause célèbre.
Read more about Elizabeth Cass: Early Life, Mistaken Arrest, Perjury Case
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“... woman was made first for her own happiness, with the absolute right to herself ... we deny that dogma of the centuries, incorporated in the codes of all nations—that woman was made for man ...”
—National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3, ch. 27, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)