Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONENow all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
-
-
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
LUCY STONE -
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 -
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONE -
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE -
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE -
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONE -
Make the world better.
LUCY STONE -
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 -
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONE -
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONE -
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONE -
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
LUCY STONE -
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
LUCY STONE -
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 -
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE






