Let’s read better books of Abolition and Transcendentalism by women, none of whom took time off work to lounge around and navel-gaze in a tiny house on borrowed land and then act all serene and self-congratulatory about it, as they were too busy saving lives and changing the world. 

Frances E.W. Harper * Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper * Lola LeRoy

Sojourner Truth * On Women’s Rights * Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Margaret Fuller * Women in the Nineteenth Century * The Essential Margaret Fuller