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.
LUCY STONEToo much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Make the world better.
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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 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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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