Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Amelia Bloomer

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Last updated on November 2, 2024.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy. In her work with The Lily, she became the first woman to own, operate and edit a newspaper for women.

May 27, 1818 - December 30, 1894

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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.

Amelia Bloomer

It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.

Amelia Bloomer

It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.

Amelia Bloomer

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Amelia Bloomer

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.

Amelia Bloomer

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Amelia Bloomer

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

Amelia Bloomer

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

Amelia Bloomer

When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off.

Amelia Bloomer

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

Amelia Bloomer