Leave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEThe great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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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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