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If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Lucy Stone

All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
LUCY STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
LUCY STONE

Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Distance Road Short
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
Make the world better.
LUCY STONE

Better One Liner World
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONE

Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONE

God Greatness Man Moral Myself Rare Victory Win
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
LUCY STONE

Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
LUCY STONE

Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave Women
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
LUCY STONE

Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONE

Freedom Leaving Talk Women Writing
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
LUCY STONE

Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE

Deny Live Manager Place Truth

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

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