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 STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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We must be true to each other.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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.
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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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.
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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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