The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEIf 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
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We must be true to each other.
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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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Make the world better.
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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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