Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEIt is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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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.
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