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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

Lucy Stone

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.
LUCY STONE

Expand Herself Improvement Women World
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
LUCY STONE

Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
Make the world better.
LUCY STONE

Better One Liner World
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
LUCY STONE

Air Equality Ideas Right
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONE

Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
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.
LUCY STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
LUCY STONE

Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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
LUCY STONE

Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONE

God Greatness Man Moral Myself Rare Victory Win
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONE

Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women
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

Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONE

Distance Road Short
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?
LUCY STONE

Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild

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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