Antoinette Blakwell

This month is Women's History Month. I thought that I would celebrate by sharing short biographies of some women I admire. Today is the first one. Please let me tell you a little about Antoinette Blackwell

Antoinette was born in 1825 and began to speak publicly in her church at the age of 9. She was the first woman ordained a minister in the United States. As well, as one of the first women to get a college education. She became an advocate for women's rights and abolition. She seemed like kind of a spunky lady and I really admire that.

She Said:

"If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, "Women's work is never done," leads inevitably to its antithesis -- ladies' work is never begun."

"Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution."

“The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not identical.”

Hope I didn't bore everybody.

Thanks for reading.