The Feminine Mystique

by

Betty Friedan

Lucy Stone Character Analysis

– An abolitionist and campaigner for women’s rights. Stone was born in western Massachusetts and attended Oberlin College where she was forbidden from studying public speaking, so she practiced by herself in the woods. Stone, like other feminists had the reputation of being a “big, masculine woman” who wore boots, smoked a cigar, and swore like a sailor, but she was quite dainty in-person. Despite her initial objections to marriage, she married the reformer and suffragist, Henry Blackwell. Though she mentions most notable nineteenth-century American feminists, Friedan focuses on Stone as an example of a self-reliant woman who discovered her own desire for equal rights through her effort to free slaves. Stone was vilified in media, but she became an inspiration to other women who later joined the movement for suffrage.

Lucy Stone Quotes in The Feminine Mystique

The The Feminine Mystique quotes below are all either spoken by Lucy Stone or refer to Lucy Stone . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4 Quotes

Only men had the freedom to love, and enjoy love, and decide for themselves in the eyes of their God the problems of right and wrong. Did women want these freedoms because they wanted to be men? Or did they want them because they were also human?

Related Characters: Betty Friedan (speaker), Lucy Stone
Page Number: 82
Explanation and Analysis:
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Lucy Stone Quotes in The Feminine Mystique

The The Feminine Mystique quotes below are all either spoken by Lucy Stone or refer to Lucy Stone . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Domesticity and Femininity Theme Icon
).
Chapter 4 Quotes

Only men had the freedom to love, and enjoy love, and decide for themselves in the eyes of their God the problems of right and wrong. Did women want these freedoms because they wanted to be men? Or did they want them because they were also human?

Related Characters: Betty Friedan (speaker), Lucy Stone
Page Number: 82
Explanation and Analysis: