Lucretia Mott Quotes
1793–1880 United States
Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was a Quaker abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer who lived in the USA.
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It becomes man to speak modestly of his ability to act without her.
Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer? (1854)
On no good ground can reform be delayed.
Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer? (1854)
The Irishwoman now goes about barefoot, the husband with shoes and stockings; — she with her child in her arms, he carrying nothing.
It is not Christianity but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
the opening of profitable employment to women in France is doing much for the enfranchisement of the sex.
Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer? (1854)
Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed, that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage, she hugs her chains.
Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer? (1854)
This then is what we ask for woman, that she may be so prepared for life’s duties, that can be fill her walk in life respectably, and show that she can be something more than a slave, on the one hand, or a toy, or an effeminate being on the other.