I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONEWe ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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It 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
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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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