Famous Quotes | Publicity! publicity! was the...

Publicity! publicity! was the persistent demand. To meet the demand, small papers, owned and edited by women, sprang up all over the land, and like Jonah’s gourd, perished in a night.... No use waiting to learn to put two consecutive sentences together in any connected form, or for an idea or the power of expressing it. One woman was printing her productions, and why should not all the rest do likewise? They had so long followed some leader like a flock of sheep, that now they would rush through the first gap into newspaperdom. - Jane Grey Swisshelm
Attribution: Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884), U.S. newspaperwoman, abolitionist, and human rights activist. Half a Century, ch. 29 (1880). On the quick founding of numerous feminist publications in the mid 1800s, following Swisshelm’s establishment of the Pittsburg Saturday Visiter, an abolitionist newspaper, in 1847.

Categories: Abolitionist, And Human Rights Activist, Feminism, Journalism And Journalists, Newspaperwoman, Publishers And Publishing

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