Have you heard the story about the lady who got locked in an insane asylum for disagreeing with her husband?

In the 1860s, Elizabeth Packard and her husband didn't see eye to eye on theological principles and for that, he had her committed to an asylum. At the time, husbands could institutionalize their wives without proof. For three years, she endured horrific conditions but never stopped fighting.

She secretly wrote down what she saw in the asylum, hid her notes in quilt stuffing, and later published books exposing the cruel treatment of women in asylums. After securing her freedom, she dedicated her life to changing the laws so no woman could be locked away just for speaking her mind. (And by the way, those books she published helped support her and her children after she got out, got custody and got away from her husband.)

Elizabeth’s story is a powerful reminder that calling a woman “crazy” is often just a way to silence her—until she fights back.