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.
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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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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.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Make the world better.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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