The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More
Apps...
Quotation by Lucy Stone
More Quotes From
Lucy Stone (10)Additional Sources
as quoted in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings by Miriam Schnier (1972)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)as quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper (1898)as quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper (1898-1908)
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?
Lucy Stone (1818–1893), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 1, ch. 7, by Ida Husted Harper (1898).
In an 1854 letter to her friend and sister suffragist Susan B. Anthony, who had written that the abuse she was receiving for wearing a short-skirt-and-bloomer ensemble in the interest of comfort and dress reform, had become intolerable. Stone, too, and eventually all of the few feminists who had worn bloomers, abandoned them before long.
In an 1854 letter to her friend and sister suffragist Susan B. Anthony, who had written that the abuse she was receiving for wearing a short-skirt-and-bloomer ensemble in the interest of comfort and dress reform, had become intolerable. Stone, too, and eventually all of the few feminists who had worn bloomers, abandoned them before long.
Surprise me with a
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
