Quotes About Amelia Bloomer

#1. Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

Dorothy Draper

#2. 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

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

Amelia Bloomer

#4. I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

Amitav Ghosh

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

Amelia Bloomer

#6. We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

Yip Harburg

#7. 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

#8. I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

LeBron James

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

Amelia Bloomer

#10. 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

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

Amelia Bloomer

#12. A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

William Hazlitt

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower'.

Idries Shah