Leave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEI expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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