Open Your Beauty to the Sun

“Credit not the old fashioned absurdity, that woman’s is a secondary lot, ministering to the necessities of her lord and master! It is a higher destiny I would award you [….]

I would charge you to water the undying bud, and give it healthy culture, and open its beauty to the sun—and then you may hope, that when your life is bound up with another, you will go on equally, and in a fellowship that shall pervade every earthly interest.”

— Lucretia Mott, 1849
Quaker women’s rights activist and abolitionist

Today’s Invitation

Water the undying bud, and give it healthy culture, and open its beauty to the sun.

This Week’s Query

What gifts have your spiritual foremothers given you?

What lessons from Quaker “herstory” resonate with you?

Share your response!

Banner image: Rebecca Hoenig
Read the source of today’s quote

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Author

  • Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. In 1848, she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first public gathering about women's rights, the Seneca Falls Convention.

    View all posts