She refused to stay silent in a world that told women to be quiet. Matilda Joslyn Gage wasn’t just part of the suffrage movement—she helped shape its very foundation. While others focused on the right to vote, she took aim at something even more dangerous: the idea that God himself had decreed women to be lesser. Gage called out the hypocrisy of religious institutions that preached virtue while upholding women’s subjugation. Her 1893 book, Woman, Church and State, pulled no punches. It accused o