Lucy Stone began lecturing on women’s rights in 1847 in a church in Gardner, Massachusetts, where her brother was a minister. She was tiny, weighed about 100 pounds, was a marvelous speaker. As lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society, she was, at various times, deluged with cold water, sent reeling by a thrown book, attacked by mobs.
When she married Henry Black well, they joined hands at their wedding and read a statement: While we acknowledge our mutual affection by publicly assuming the relationship of husband and wife…we deem it a duty to declare that this act on our part implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary obedience to such of the present laws of marriage as refuse to recognize the wife as an independence, rational being, while they confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority…
She was one of the first to refuse to give up her name after marriage.- Howard Zinn in A People’s History of the United States

feministharrypotter:

via Molly Infante.

Calling someone a bitch is sexist.

Molly Weasley