Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONE
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
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Make the world better.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
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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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