"Ever since woman took her life in her own hands, ever since she began to think for herself, the dawning of a great light has flooded the world." --hope from the feminists of 1887

"Now I’m old, all constraints are gone and I can do what I like,” she said. One of her recent songs includes the chorus: “So shout out, fuck it / It’s my time! / The stage is mine! / I’m 79 / And in my fucking prime.” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

"If the lady you mention will only sleep all she wants, and make it a rule to rest when she is tired, she will never get ill." --Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!

I adored Some Like it Scandalous by @mayarodale.bsky.social! Best HEA I've read in ages. Great story topped off with a perfect proposal.

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. n.pr/4fKcjw3

US Representative: "Now ladies, what is really the legal status of marriage, so far as the condition of the wife is concerned?" Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too." --House Judiciary Meeting in 1871

Today's fast fashion factories sound a lot like Gilded Age sweatshops: "...sewing on hundreds of buttons, or ironing hundreds of collars. Depending on the complexity of the task, workers earn between one and 10 yuan per item, toiling for long hours in cramped conditions."

"If women, on being made really free to choose, will not marry, then we must arraign men on the charge of having made the married state so irksome and distasteful to women that they prefer celibacy when they dare enjoy it." --19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"

Maybe affordable, quality childcare is our generational equivalent of the fight for women's right to vote or to legalize birth control. buff.ly/Me9O6Pn

"Resolved, That the members of this society do hereby pledge themselves not to aid either by their labor, time or money, the proposed celebration of the independence of the men of the nation, unless before July 4, 1876, the women of the land shall be guaranteed their political freedom."

Ever since I first read this story of Susan B. Anthony helping an abused wife escape—breaking the law to do so—I couldn’t stop thinking about it. This is sisterhood in action. buff.ly/N7sGrRb

Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

"Why do these people submit to the cruel tyranny that our government exercises over them?" The answer is apparent—"simply because they are ignorant of their power." --The Complete History of Women's Suffrage

"In our hearts we feel that there is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven. That word is liberty." Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)

Imagine listing the occupations of Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett and other reformers as "blank" on census records! It happened and it's how women get erased from history.

“It is not enough that we should have the vote. We need the means by which the votes are cast.”

Men were afraid that this would happen if women got the vote.

Women in 1855: "Women must have equal pay for equal work." Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?" Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage

"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer." --Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free

Don’t rank Cuomo!!

Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.

Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!

"Did he ever take in the idea that to the mother of the race, and to her alone, belonged the right to say when a new being should be brought into the world?" --Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

"Ours has been a cause to live for, a cause to die for if need be. It has been a movement with a soul, a dauntless, unconquerable soul ever leading onward. Women came, served and passed on but others took their places...." --The Suffs in 1920 after fighting for the vote for 72 years

No one wants to do housework: "Let the printer advertise for two girls to set type, and a hundred applications will be made, while women for the kitchen are very scarce." --Frances Gage in 1853

"We judge of the intellectual inferiority of our fellow-men by the amount of resistance they oppose to oppression." --Ernestine Rose in 1854 and many women today

“The establishing of woman on her rightful throne is the greatest revolution the world has ever known or ever will know.” --Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869 #Goals

Happy birthday to Nellie Bly! If she were alive today, this fearless stunt reporter would be washing dishes in the White House, joining a union of Amazon warehouse workers, or making coffee as your local barista....all for front page stories about people's lives.

Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!

"It is only one of our rights to dress comfortably..." --Amelia Bloomer to Susan B. Anthony on wearing Bloomers in the 1850s

"Agitate. Educate. Organize." --Susan B. Anthony on how to run a revolution for human rights

This is from 1920. I don't think some men have gotten over it yet.

"In the hearings before the committee it will be found that one of the leaders among the suffragettes declared that they wanted the ballot for protection', and when asked against whom she desired protection' she promptly and frankly replied, `men.'" --Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens, 1920

On this Earth Day, I'm remembering Eunice Newton Foote, the female scientist who predicted global warming....IN 1856! If only we listened to women and nature....

"A speaker in New York said that our democracy was the laughing stock of all the civilized nations of the world. It is the laughing stock because of the failure of this democracy to dare to be democratic." --The Complete History of Women's Suffrage, 1910

"We are told woman has all the rights she wants; and even women, I am ashamed to say, tell us so. They mistake the politeness of men for rights—seats while men stand in this hall to-night, and their adulations; but these are mere courtesies. We want rights." —Lucy Stone, Suffragist

I can't believe we might have to fight this battle AGAIN. It took a long time for women to win the vote--let's not lose it now.

Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare.

This is sadly appropriate to share again.

“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

“The old Slave Ocrats are bound to push out every man & woman of color from the enjoyment of civil rights." --Susan B. Anthony

69M married women could lose their voting rights if the SAVE Act is passed. Transgender individuals too. Why? Absent a valid passport, you must present a birth certificate *with the same name as your registration* to be registered. This is insane! Hands Off Her Vote

"Woman should be as free to marry, or remain single, and as honorable in either relation, as man. There should be no stigma attached to the single woman, impelling her to avoid the possibility of such a position, by crushing her self-respect and individual ambition." --Suffs, 1851

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

"We are here because when our country is at war for liberty and democracy . . ." At that point she was roughly seized by a policeman and placed under arrest. The great audience stood in absolute and amazed silence." --Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens, 1918

"Because of the false position of women, I have been compelled to hold all my noblest aspirations in abeyance in order to be a wife, a mother, a nurse, a cook and a household drudge..." --Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1840s

I thought I was was going to write just about bicycling and women’s fashion and how the popularity of the bicycle meant women could start wearing pants. The real story is about how women’s cycling was a popular, promising spectator sport until men blatantly forced them out.

“Men seem to entertain fears that . . . they will be compelled to perform the domestic duties which belong exclusively to our sex…” --Amelia Bloomer in her newspaper The Lily (19th century)