Amelia Bloomer

thumb Amelia Jenks Bloomer (born May 27, 1818 in Homer, New York; died December 30, 1894 in Council Bluffs, Iowa) was a newspaper editor and women's rights and temperance advocate who lived in the USA. Quotes Life And Writings Of Amelia Bloomer (1895) The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance. (p80, from 1857 letter) Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof! (p98) The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning. (p309) Quotes about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Bloomer, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, and the later suffragists of whom she [Le Sueur's mother] was one. These courageous women set a pattern not understood yet, standing in their prim strength, in their sweetness and sobriety against cruel ridicule, moral censure, charges of insanity; for there is no cruelty like that of the oppressor who feels his loss of the bit on those it has been his gain to oppress. "Pine knots as we are," Susan Anthony said. They used the only means open to them - they became orators when it was considered immoral for a woman to speak in public; if she went to meetings she was only to listen and learn. But they could use their constitutional right of petition, and they could tramp up and down, getting signatures for the right to work, to get a divorce, to speak in public, to vote. Meridel Le Sueur "Crusaders" (1955) We owe it to Amelia Bloomer that we can without public ridicule wear short skirts and stout boots, be as sensible as our feminine natures permit Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939) External links Category:1818 births Category:1894 deaths Category:American feminists Category:Journalists from New York (state)