"The widening of women’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff — if it sneer, let it sneer — but we will go emulating the example of the sisters Grimké and Abby Kelly. When they first lectured against slavery they were not listened to as respectfully as you listen to us. So the first female physician meets many difficulties, but to the next the path will be made easy."
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Non-fiction authors from the United StatesAbolitionistsWomen authors from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesActivists from South Carolina
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Lucy Stone, speech (1855)
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