Woman Quotes

“Margaret Fuller, the leading antebellum female intellectual, even went so far as to suggest that the anti-slavery party ought to plead for women’s rights, too—because, like slaves, women were kept in bondage by civil law, custom, and patriarchal abuse.68 It was an emboldening insight. Elizabeth Cady, daughter of a prominent New York lawyer, had had fantasies when she was eleven years old of leading a life of scholarship and self-reliance.”
― Lillian Faderman, Woman: The American History of an Idea

“Margaret Fuller, America’s first female public intellectual and a contemporary of Beecher, was her antithesis. In 1840, Fuller became editor of the era’s premier highbrow magazine, The Dial. She was then thirty years old.”
― Lillian Faderman, Woman: The American History of an Idea

“Hale was among the first in a very long line of women who stepped far beyond the home but had phenomenal success in telling other women that the home was where they belonged.”
― Lillian Faderman, Woman: The American History of an Idea