"The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman.... I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."

Source : Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

Lucy Stone

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