Status Updates From La femme mystifiée

all i have to read is the three, yes three; afterwords

i’m really trying to finish this tomorrow but i won’t have time

“a rude poem promising ‘fame’s loud trumpet shall be blown’ for the man who ‘with a wedding kiss shuts up the mouth of Lucy Stone.’ ”

“the Rev. Theodore Parker preached in Boston in 1853. ‘To make one half of the human race consume its energies in the functions of housekeeper, wife and mother is a monstrous waste of the most precious material God ever made.’”