Top 10 Quotes by Amelia Bloomer

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

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

Men, Clothes, Dresses

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

Comfort, Want, Costumes

Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of 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

Women, Law, Spheres

Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1994). “Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer”, Praeger Pub Text

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

Time, Dominion, Way

Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer”

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

Amelia Bloomer

Needs, Want, Costumes

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

Amelia Bloomer

Belief, Burden, Apparel

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

Race, Doctrine, Concerned

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

Hands, History, Saws