A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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We must be true to each other.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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.
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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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